An Approach Towards Energy Efficient Channel Reduction in Cellular Networks

Abstract

An energy efficient model in cellular networks is proposed in this paper to reduce the number of long range channels as well as the energy consumption of the mobile devices. The devices having high energy in terms of battery level are used to establish communication between the base station and the requesting mobile devices. The overall energy consumed by all devices is estimated if one such high energy device receives data from the base station and subsequently propagates the same to other mobile devices. The energy consumption is assessed for increasing number of bridging devices. The proposed approach reduces the number of long range channels used and the overall energy consumption of devices. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.