Sleep control for base stations powered by heterogeneous energy sources

S Zhou, J Gong, Z Niu - 2013 International Conference on ICT …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers a cellular network with base stations (BSs) powered by heterogeneous
energy sources, ie, besides conventional BSs connected to the power grid, some BSs are …

An optimal dynamic sleeping control policy for single base stations in green cellular networks

S Herrería-Alonso, M Rodríguez-Pérez… - Journal of Network and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Energy efficiency of cellular networks can be greatly improve if base stations (BSs) can be
put into a low power operation mode during low load periods. In this paper, we present a …

Base station sleeping control with energy-stability tradeoff in centralized radio access networks

C Liu, Y Wan, L Tian, Y Zhou… - 2015 IEEE global …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Switching off some Base Stations (BSs) with low traffic is a promising approach to save
energy in cellular networks. However, it should be noted that frequently switching BSs on/off …

Hysteretic base station sleeping control for energy saving in 5G cellular network

J Yang, W Wang, X Zhang - 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Base station (BS) sleeping operation in transient process has been widely analyzed in
current studies to save cellular network energy consumption. In this paper, we propose a …

Traffic-aware base station sleeping in dense cellular networks

J Gong, S Zhou, Z Niu, P Yang - 2010 IEEE 18th international …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The energy consumption of information and communication technology (ICT) industry has
become a serious problem, which mostly comes from the network infrastructure, rather than …

Delay-constrained energy-optimal base station sleeping control

X Guo, Z Niu, S Zhou, PR Kumar - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Base station (BS) sleeping is an effective way to improve the energy-efficiency of cellular
networks. However, it may bring extra user-perceived delay. We conduct a theoretical study …

A dynamic programming approach for base station sleeping in cellular networks

J Gong, S Zhou, Z Niu - IEICE transactions on communications, 2012 - search.ieice.org
The energy consumption of the information and communication technology (ICT) industry,
which has become a serious problem, is mostly due to the network infrastructure rather than …

Capacity maximization of energy-harvesting small cells with dynamic sleep mode operation in heterogeneous networks

CY Chang, KL Ho, W Liao… - 2014 IEEE international …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate how to utilize renewable energy harvested by small cells to
increase network capacity. Specifically, we try to maximize the average capacity of a small …

Traffic-aware network planning and green operation with BS sleeping and cell zooming

S Zhang, Y Wu, S Zhou, Z Niu - IEICE Transactions on …, 2014 - search.ieice.org
The traffic load of cellular networks varies in both time and spatial domains, causing many
base stations (BS) to be under-utilized. Assisted by cell zooming, dynamic BS sleep control …

Base station sleeping and resource allocation in renewable energy powered cellular networks

J Gong, JS Thompson, S Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider energy-efficient wireless resource management in cellular networks where
base stations (BSs) are equipped with energy harvesting devices, using statistical …