An optimal dynamic sleeping control policy for single base stations in green cellular networks

Resumo

Energy efficiency of cellular networks can be greatly improve if base stations (BSs) can be put into a low power operation mode during low load periods. In this paper, we present a new dynamic scheme to manage the sleep mode of energy-aware BSs that can be autonomously governed. This kind of BSs, such as those operating in heterogeneous or hyper-cellular networks, can be put to sleep without causing undesired coverage holes, thus preserving the cellular service over the whole coverage area. With the proposed mechanism, energy-aware BSs enter the sleep mode as soon as they have no traffic to send and then apply a coalescing algorithm that dynamically adjusts the length of the sleeping periods to maximize the energy savings while maintaining the average service delay around a target value at the same time.

Publicación
Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 116, pp. 86-94
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