Energy efficient radio access architectures for green radio: large versus small cell size deployment

B. Badic, Timothy O'Farrell, Pavel Loskot, Jianhua He

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference outputConference publication

    Abstract

    In this paper new architectural approaches that improve the energy efficiency of a cellular radio access network (RAN) are investigated. The aim of the paper is to characterize both the energy consumption ratio (ECR) and the energy consumption gain (ECG) of a cellular RAN when the cell size is reduced for a given user density and service area. The paper affirms that reducing the cell size reduces the cell ECR as desired while increasing the capacity density but the overall RAN energy consumption remains unchanged. In order to trade the increase in capacity density with RAN energy consumption, without degrading the cell capacity provision, a sleep mode is introduced. In sleep mode, cells without active users are powered-off, thereby saving energy. By combining a sleep mode with a small-cell deployment architecture, the paper shows that the ECG can be increased by the factor n = (R/R) while the cell ECR continues to decrease with decreasing cell size.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2009 IEEE 70th Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2009-Fall)
    Place of Publication978-1-4244-2514-3
    PublisherIEEE
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4244-2515-0
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2009
    Event2009 IEEE 70th Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2009-Fall) - Anchorage, AK, United States
    Duration: 20 Sept 200923 Sept 2009

    Publication series

    NameIEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
    PublisherIEEE
    ISSN (Print)1090-3038

    Conference

    Conference2009 IEEE 70th Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2009-Fall)
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityAnchorage, AK
    Period20/09/0923/09/09

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