Base Station Energy Efficiency Improvement for Next Generation Mobile Networks

• Autorzy: Mwashita W. , Odhiambo M. O.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.1515/eletel-2017-0025

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

As more and more Base Stations (BSs) are being deployed by mobile operators to meet the ever increasing data traffic, solutions have to be found to try and reduce BS energy consumption to make the BSs more energy efficient and to reduce the mobile networks' operational expenditure (OPEX) and carbon dioxide emissions. In this paper, a BS sleeping technology deployable in heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is proposed. The proposed scheme is validated by using extensive OMNeT++/SimuLTE simulations. From the simulations, it is shown that some lightly loaded micro BSs can be put to sleep in a HetNet when the network traffic is very low without compromising the QoS of the mobile network.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

energy efficiency; Base Station sleeping; CO2 emissions; heterogeneous networks; mobile networks; next generation networks; operational expenditure (OPEX)

• Wydawca: Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee of Electronics and Telecommunication
• Czasopismo: International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications
• Rocznik: 2017
• Tom: Vol. 63, No. 2
• Strony: 187--194
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 20 poz., rys., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Mwashita W.

• University of South Africa, South Africa

autor

Odhiambo M. O.

• Department of Computer Systems and Process Control at Vaal University of Technology, South Africa

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Uwagi

PL

Opracowanie ze środków MNiSW w ramach umowy 812/P-DUN/2016 na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (zadania 2017).