Abstract
Licensed-assisted access (LAA) has been developed to improve LTE system capacity by using unlicensed bands. However, the energy efficiency (EE) of the LTE system may be degraded by LAA since unlicensed bands are generally less energy-efficient than licensed bands. In this paper, we investigate the EE optimization of LAA systems. We first develop a criterion to determine whether unlicensed bands can be leveraged to improve the EE of LAA systems. We prove that unlicensed bands can be used to improve the EE only when the allocated licensed resource blocks (RBs) are not enough. We then investigate how to jointly allocate licensed and unlicensed RBs to achieve EE fairness among small cell base stations (SBSs), based on the Nash bargaining solution. Numerical results are presented to confirm our analysis and to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
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