TelePlanNet: An AI-Driven Framework for Efficient Telecom Network Planning

TL;DR

TelePlanNet is an AI-driven framework that enhances 5G base station site selection by integrating large language models and reinforcement learning, significantly improving planning efficiency and consistency over manual methods.

Contribution

The paper introduces TelePlanNet, a novel AI framework combining LLMs and reinforcement learning for scalable, multi-objective telecom network planning.

Findings

Achieves 78% planning consistency, outperforming manual methods.

Effectively addresses multi-objective optimization in network planning.

Demonstrates scalable automation for large-scale telecom site selection.

Abstract

The selection of base station sites is a critical challenge in 5G network planning, which requires efficient optimization of coverage, cost, user satisfaction, and practical constraints. Traditional manual methods, reliant on human expertise, suffer from inefficiencies and are limited to an unsatisfied planning-construction consistency. Existing AI tools, despite improving efficiency in certain aspects, still struggle to meet the dynamic network conditions and multi-objective needs of telecom operators' networks. To address these challenges, we propose TelePlanNet, an AI-driven framework tailored for the selection of base station sites, integrating a three-layer architecture for efficient planning and large-scale automation. By leveraging large language models (LLMs) for real-time user input processing and intent alignment with base station planning, combined with training the planning model using the improved group relative policy optimization (GRPO) reinforcement learning, the proposed TelePlanNet can effectively address multi-objective optimization, evaluates candidate sites, and delivers practical solutions. Experiments results show that the proposed TelePlanNet can improve the consistency to 78%, which is superior to the manual methods, providing telecom operators with an efficient and scalable tool that significantly advances cellular network planning.