A connection-driven mechanism for energy saving of small-cell networks
Journal
2016 25th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2016
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Abstract
The small cell technology is proposed to provide wireless transmission services in the indoor environment and offload the traffic from a macro cell. Because of the small coverage of a small cell, there are usually a large number of small cells deployed in the mobile network, and it is likely that there are no User Equipments (UEs) in a small cell. A small cell may be idle most of the time and waste energy. In this paper, we propose a Connection-Driven (CD) mechanism for energy saving of small cells, where a small cell in the sleep mode is woken up when there are UEs (that have ongoing dedicated bearers) within its service area. We propose an analytical model and simulation experiments to investigate the performance of the CD mechanism. © 2016 IEEE.
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Other Subjects
Cells; Computer networks; Cytology; Energy conservation; Indoor environment; ITS Services; Model and simulation; Performance Model; Small cell Networks; User equipments; Waste energy; Wireless transmissions; Wireless telecommunication systems
Type
conference paper