Cellular network outage mitigation

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving outage information about a wireless network, the outage information defining a service area affected by a service outage and one or more cells of the wireless network affected by the service outage;
• receiving bin information, the bin information including information about a set of bins defined for the service area affected by the service outage;
• identifying one or more cells serving each bin of the set of bins for the service area affected by the service outage;
• identifying candidate cells to be reconfigured to serve the bins of the set of bins for the service area affected by the service outage;
• selecting one or more candidate cells, forming selected cells;
• determining modifications to service areas of the selected cells, the modifications to the service areas determined to provide replacement coverage for the wireless network by the selected cells to bins of the set of bins for the service area affected by the service outage;
• and
• modifying the selected cells according to the modifications to compensate for the service outage at bins of the set of bins.

A method, comprising:

• determining, by a processing system including a processor, outage information about a service outage in a wireless network, the outage information defining one or more cells of the wireless network affected by the service outage;
• determining, by the processing system, bin information, the bin information including information about a set of bins defined for a service area of the wireless network affected by the service outage;
• identifying, by the processing system, one or more cells serving each bin of the set of bins for the service area affected by the service outage;
• identifying, by the processing system, candidate cells to be reconfigured to serve the bins of the set of bins for the service area affected by the service outage;
• selecting, by the processing system, one or more candidate cells, forming selected cells;
• and
• redirecting, by the processing system, antennas of the selected cells according to antenna tilts selected to provide coverage to bins of the set of bins for the service area affected by the service outage to thereby compensate for the service outage at bins of the set of bins.