Base stations have been identified to be the most power consuming part in current mobile networks. Since their power profile only depends to a small fraction on the actual traffic load, putting some base stations in sleep mode has been identified as a solution to scale the network power consumption with the actual load. This paper presents a new system architecture based on the paradigm of “cell on-demand”, which is currently studied in the Beyond Cellular Green Generation (BCG2) project of the GreenTouch consortium. We first outline the key characteristics of the new system architecture, then, we present a framework for position information processing in order to predict the channel quality between a user and a set of switched-off base stations that can potentially be activated by the system to serve the user. Experimental evaluation on a small scale testbed shows the viability of the proposed framework by achieving estimation errors of 20%.
Context management in energy-efficient radio access networks
REDONDI, ALESSANDRO ENRICO CESARE;FILIPPINI, ILARIO;CAPONE, ANTONIO
2013-01-01
Abstract
Base stations have been identified to be the most power consuming part in current mobile networks. Since their power profile only depends to a small fraction on the actual traffic load, putting some base stations in sleep mode has been identified as a solution to scale the network power consumption with the actual load. This paper presents a new system architecture based on the paradigm of “cell on-demand”, which is currently studied in the Beyond Cellular Green Generation (BCG2) project of the GreenTouch consortium. We first outline the key characteristics of the new system architecture, then, we present a framework for position information processing in order to predict the channel quality between a user and a set of switched-off base stations that can potentially be activated by the system to serve the user. Experimental evaluation on a small scale testbed shows the viability of the proposed framework by achieving estimation errors of 20%.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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