Green small cell planning in smart cities under dynamic traffic demand

Li Zhou, Xiping Hu, Chunsheng Zhu, Edith C.H. Ngai, Shan Wang, Jibo Wei, Victor C.M. Leung

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Abstract

In smart cities, cellular network plays a crucial role to support connectivity anywhere and anytime. However, the communication demand brought by applications and services is hard to predict. Traffic in cellular networks might fluctuate heavily over time to time, which causes burden and waste under different traffic states. Recently, small cell was proposed to enhance spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency in cellular networks. However, how green the small cell network can be is still a question because of the accompanying interference. To meet this challenge, new green technologies should be developed. In this paper, we propose a green small cell planning scheme considering dynamic traffic states. First, we predefine a set of candidate locations for base stations (BSs) in a geographical area and generate a connection graph which contains all possible connections between BSs and user equipments (UEs). Then we adopt a heuristic to switch off small cell BSs (s-BSs) and update BS-UE connections iteratively. Finally we obtain a cell planning solution with energy efficiency without reducing spectrum efficiency and quality-ofservice (QoS) requirements. The simulation results show that our dynamic small cell planning scheme has low computational complexity and achieves a significant improvement in energy efficiency comparing with the static cell planning scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages618-623
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467371315
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Aug 2015
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2015 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Duration: 26 Apr 20151 May 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
Volume2015-August
ISSN (Print)0743-166X

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2015
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityHong Kong
Period26/04/151/05/15

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