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A system-level power saving approach for cellular networks with microcells/picocells

Ziaul Haq AbbasFrank Y. Li

subject

Reduction (complexity)Transmission (telecommunications)business.industryComputer scienceCellular networkPower savingSystem levelSector antennaAntenna (radio)businessPower (physics)Computer network

description

Network power consumption reduction has recently become an active research topic. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to save power consumption of a three-cell microcellular network. When the traffic load in the middle cell is low, it can be switched-off and its users are covered. This is enabled by increasing the transmission power of one sector antenna in the two neighboring cells. Numerical results show that by increasing antenna transmission power of the two sectors, the overall network power consumption can be reduced.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2011-02-012011 2nd International Conference on Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology (Wireless VITAE)
https://doi.org/10.1109/wirelessvitae.2011.5940872