Abstract: The present invention relates a system and a method for optimizing Physical Cell ID (PCI) assignment in a wireless communication network such as an Open-Radio Access Network (O-RAN) (100). The method includes deploying an optimization service in an rApp (104) and registering the optimization service as a PCI-rApp within a Service Management and Orchestration Framework (SMO) (102), assigning a listing of unique predefined PCIs to operating cells of a selected range after satisfying one or more constraints and concluding that the procedure has been successful if the assignment of the PCI to each operating cell completes without using more than the listing of unique predefined PCIs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system of managing a plurality of neighbor cells of each target cell. The method includes capturing and reporting, by a central unit (CU) (512) associated with each target cell, a radio signal quality associated with each of the plurality of neighbor cells (354b, 354c, 354d) of a target cell (354a) based on signal strength measurements reported by a plurality of user equipments (UEs) (324a1, 324a2, 324a3) to the target cell, ranking and labeling the plurality of neighbor cells based on the radio signal quality associated with each of the plurality of neighbor cells and taking and managing an action based on the ranking and labeling. Particularly, the action is associated with the plurality of neighbor cells.