Deployment strategies and energy efficiency of cellular networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2552-2563

  Koutitas, George ^a   Karousos, Anastasios ^b   Tassiulas, Leandros ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL HELLENIC UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b AIRCOM International Limited   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Energy efficient cellular networks; green communications; radio network planning; ray tracing

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; CELLULAR NETWORK; DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY; EFFICIENT STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; LOW POWER; MICRO CELL; NETWORK DEPLOYMENT; NETWORK PLANNING; NETWORK POWER; POWER LEVELS; PRE-PROCESSING; RADIO NETWORK PLANNING; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; TEST PROCEDURES; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VECTOR FORMATS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; RAY TRACING; TESTING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84864147216     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.050112.111461     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. L. K. Correla, D. Zeller, et al., "Challenges and enabling technologies for energy aware mobile radio networks," IEEE Commun. Mag., pp. 66-72, Nov. 2010.
2. "SMART 2020: enabling the low carbon economy in the information age," The Climate Group, June 2008, http://www.smart2020.org
3. Z. Niu, Y. Wu, J. Gong, and Z. Yang, "Cell zooming for cost efficient green cellular networks," IEEE Commun. Mag., pp. 74-79, Nov. 2010.
4. M. Marsan, L. Chiaraviglio, D. Ciullo, and M. Meo, "Optimal energy savings in cellular access networks," 2009 IEEE ICC, GreenCom Wksp.
5. K. Dufkova, M. Bjelica, M. Byongkwon, L. Kencl, and J. Y. LeBoudec, "Energy savings for cellular network with evaluation of impact on data traffic performance," in Proc. 2010 European Wireless, pp. 916-923.
6. G. Koutitas, "Green network planning of single frequency networks," IEEE Trans. Broadcast., vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 541-550, 2010.
7. F. Richter, G. Fettweis, M. Gruber, and O. Blume, "Micro base stations in load constrained cellular mobile radio networks," in Proc. 2010 International Workshop on Green Wireless.
8. M. Pickavet et al., "Worldwide energy needs for ICT: the rise of poweraware networking," in Proc. 2008 IEEE ANTS Conference.
9. O. Arnold, F. Richter, G. Fettweis, and O. Blume, "Power consumption modeling of different base station types in heterogeneous cellular networks," in Proc. 2010 ICT MobileSummit.
10. S. Buzzi and D. Saturnino, "A game-theoretic approach to energyefficient power control and receiver design in cognitive CDMA wireless networks," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Signal Process., vol. 5, no. 1, Feb. 2011.
11. T.-C. Chen, et al., "An efficient energy saving mechanism for IEEE 802.16e wireless MANs," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 3708-3712, 2008.
12. K. Sinha, B. P. Sinha, and D. Datta, "An energy-efficient communication scheme for wireless network: a redundant radix-based approach," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 550-559, 2011.
13. S. Cui, A. Goldsmith, and A. Bahai, "Energy-constrained modulation optimization," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 2349-2360, Sep. 2005.
14. G. E. Athanasiadou, A. R. Nix, and J. P. McGeehan, "A microcellular ray tracing propagation model and evaluation of its narrow band and wide band predictions," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 322-335, 2000.
15. M. Hassan-Ali and K. Phlavan, "A new statistical model for sitespecific indoor radio propagation prediction based on geometric optics and geometric probability," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 112-124, 2002.
16. A. G. Kanatas, I. D. Kountouris, G. B. Kostaras, and P. Constantinou, "A UTD propagation model in urban microcellular environments," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 185-193, Feb. 1997.
17. S. Y. Seidel and T. S. Rappaport, "Site-specific propagation prediction for wireless in-building personal communication system design," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 879-891, Nov. 1994.
18. G. Wolfle, R. Hoppe, and F. Landstorfer, "A fast and enhanced ray optical propagation model for indoor and urban scenarios, based on an intelligent preprocessing of the database," 1999 IEEE Int. Symp. Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Comm.
19. S. Santini, S. Bertini, and A. Monorchio, "An acceleration technique based on a shadow volumetric binary and line space partitioning," in Proc. 2008 IEEE Int. Symp. Antennas and Propagation, pp. 1-4.
20. D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition. Prentice Hall International, 1999.
21. P. D. Holm, "UTD-diffraction coefficients for higher order wedge diffracted fields," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 879-888, June 1996.
22. G. Koutitas and C. Tzaras, "A slope UTD solution for a cascade of multishaped canonical objects," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 2969-2976, 2006.
23. K. Konstantinou, S. Kang, and C. Tzaras, "A measurement-based model for mobile-to-mobile UMTS links," in Proc. IEEE 2007 Veh. Technol. Conf. -Spring, pp. 529-533.
24. M. J. Nawrocki, M. Dohler, and A. H. Aghvami, Understanding UMTS Radio Network Planning: Modeling, Planning and Automatic Optimization. Wiley, 2006.
25. S. Min, H. El-Sallabi, and H. L. Bertoni, "Effect of cell shape on design of CDMA systems for urban microcells," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 5, no. 10, pp. 2805-2813, 2006.
26. S. Hurley, "Planning effective cellular mobile radio networks," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 243-253, 2002.
27. V. Rodoplu and T. H. Meng, "Bits per joule capacity of energy limited wireless networks," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 857-865, 2007.
28. M. C. Parker, S. Nagraj, and S. D. Walker, "Absolute energy efficiency metric for carbon footprint resource management and network optimization," in Proc. 2009 Int. Conf. Clean Electrical Power, pp. 111-116.
29. D. Fagen, P. Vicharelli, and J. Weitzen, "Automated wireless coverage optimization with controlled overlap," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 2395-2403, July 2008.
30. E. Amaldi, A. Capone, and F. Malucelli, "Planning UMTS base station location: optimization models with power control algorithms," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 939-952, 2003.
31. T. Back, D. Fogel, and Z. Michalewicz, Handbook of Evolutionary Computation. Oxford University Press, 1997.
32. O. Cabral, F. J. Velez, C. Franco, and R. Rci, "Urban cellular planning optimization of multi-service enhanced UMTS based in economic issues," Lect. Notes in Computer Science, WWIC, pp. 178-189, 2006.