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A 100% practical field guide · 2026 edition

The Self-Optimizing Network

AI in Telecom Optimization — from raw 3GPP counters to closed-loop automation. Six production playbooks, 40 hands-on labs with a real 5G core, animated wire diagrams, and zero hand-waving.

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13chapters
40hands-on labs
30animated diagrams
9interactive tools
95quiz questions
293GPP specs cited

Every "AI in telecom" book stops at the diagram. This one ships the loop.

Written for RF engineers, NOC engineers and telecom data scientists who are done with slideware. Chapter 1 even teaches AI, machine learning and deep learning from zero — with a neuron you drive yourself — so you need no ML background to start.

PLAYBOOK 1

Anomaly Detection

Catch degradations hours before customers feel them. z-score → MAD → STL → Isolation Forest, alert budgets, CM-aware suppression — with an interactive threshold you drag yourself.

PLAYBOOK 2

Forecasting & Capacity

P90 quantile forecasts that feed a defensible capex list. Includes a live traffic synthesizer and the honest rolling-backtest protocol (plus the two ways teams cheat it by accident).

PLAYBOOK 3

RF Optimization

TA-histogram overshooter hunts, MDT grid maps, PCI mod-3/mod-4 graph re-coloring, and the guarded tilt loop with automatic rollback — the full contract, in code.

PLAYBOOK 4

Energy Saving

The fastest ROI in telecom AI. Coverage-safe sleep policies, wake triggers, PEE-metered savings per TS 28.552/28.554 — and the interactive savings estimator for your own fleet.

PLAYBOOK 5

Root-Cause & Alarms

400 alarms → 1 incident. The compression ladder, topology grouping, lift mining that discovers hidden dependencies, and root ranking that survives broken clocks.

PLAYBOOK 6

Predictive Maintenance

VSWR creep, twin-unit deltas, leakage-proof labels (drag the gap, watch fake AUC evaporate), precision@k dispatch lists and survival analysis.

🧪 The Lab Track — 40 real labs, one laptop, zero licenses

Not exercises — working systems. Lab 2 generates a realistic 200-cell network with planted incidents and ground truth; every detector you build gets scored, not admired. By Module L5 you're running a genuine Open5GS 5G core in Docker, decoding real NGAP with Wireshark, closing an A1-style policy loop with automatic rollback, and building a cite-or-abstain 3GPP RAG copilot on a local LLM. Lab 40 wires it all into one make all.

📎 100% spec-grounded — verify everything

Every standardized claim carries its reference: TS 28.552 counters, TS 23.288 NWDAF, TS 28.104/105 MDA & AI/ML lifecycle, TR 37.817 & TR 38.843 RAN AI, TS 28.100 autonomy levels, O-RAN WG2/WG3. Appendix A is a full atlas of all 29 cited specs. If we can't cite it, we don't claim it.

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Questions engineers actually ask

Is any part free?

Yes — Chapter 1 is completely free, no signup: the scale problem, the full AI/ML/deep-learning foundations (with the interactive neuron), the four-layer AI map, the KPI tree and the TS 28.100 autonomy ladder.

What do I need for the 40 labs?

A laptop with Python 3.10+ — pandas, scikit-learn, LightGBM (all free). No cloud, no GPU. Labs 33–35 additionally use Docker to run a real Open5GS 5G core + UERANSIM. Every lab has exact commands, expected output and a verify checklist.

I'm an RF engineer with no ML background. Will I cope?

That's exactly who Chapter 1 and 3 are written for: AI, ML and deep learning taught from zero through telecom examples, with interactive widgets instead of math walls. The Python in the playbooks is commented line by line.

I'm a data scientist new to telecom. Anything for me?

Chapter 2 is your missing manual: PM counters, granularity periods, KPI formulas, CM/FM/MDT/NWDAF — the domain knowledge that kills most telecom-ML projects, with the data-quality gate that saves them.

How is this different from a course?

It's a book you can search, skim and return to — with course-grade interactivity: steppers that replay call flows and training loops, draggable widgets, shuffled quizzes, and labs with ground-truth scoring. Reading time ~7 h; the lab track ~40 h of real building.

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If the book isn't what you expected, email [email protected] within 7 days — we'll sort it out.

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