This text addresses various open issues related to performance monitoring, performance management, and performance control. It covers the performance management aspects of broadband wired and wireless cellular networks in an integrated fashion, and highlights the role of performance management in assisting network control procedures. The text includes details of performance monitoring in broadband wired and wireless cellular networks, identifying various parameters that characterize network performance; the role of signalling networks in determining network performance, especially of GSM/GPRS cellular networks, and methods of performance optimization in broadband wired and wireless cellular networks.
