Abstract
In recent times, energy consumption is being considered as a critical issue in the mobile and cellular industry. This has led to the development of energy efficient techniques for cellular communications. With base station activity being the highest power consumer, base station sleeping has emerged as a major solution for reducing overall power consumption. Much of the existing work in this field is on a 2-state operation of base stations, wherein base stations are either active or in sleep mode.
Highlights
Cellular and mobile communications being one of the most dominant fields in the present world is utilized in various applications including defense, commercial, medical, automobile, social media and many more
This paper adopts the new concept of 3 mode base station switching technique to switch base stations (BS) between active, low-power and sleep modes depending on the traffic load in the network
To evaluate the amount of power consumption savings generated by implementing the 3-mode BS switching technique for a multiple data rate environment, a cellular network consisting of 7 cells shown in Figure 1 is considered with each cell having a BS at the center of the cell region which is accompanied by a micro BS to maintain a low-power mode of operation
Summary
Cellular and mobile communications being one of the most dominant fields in the present world is utilized in various applications including defense, commercial, medical, automobile, social media and many more. Cellular networks are set up considering maximum traffic loads in a particular region which helps the network operators to provide required quality of service (QoS) to all the users. This paper adopts the new concept of 3 mode base station switching technique to switch BSs between active, low-power and sleep modes depending on the traffic load in the network.
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