Power consumption evaluation in random cellular networks

Abstract

Recently, issues of power consumption at base stations (BSs) in wireless cellular networks have attracted great interest in both research communities and the industry. In this paper, we investigate the BS power consumption in multiple-input single-output (MISO) Poisson-Voronoi tessellation (PVT) random cellular networks. Taking into account the inter-cell interference, the impact of the traffic demands of users and the spatial traffic intensity on the BS power consumption are jointly considered for MISO PVT random cellular networks. Furthermore, the power consumption required at the BS in a typical PVT cell is modeled through characteristic functions. Simulation results are employed to evaluate the BS power consumption and the performance of the random cellular networks.