On base station coordination in cache-and energy harvesting-enabled HetNets: A stochastic geometry study

H Wu, X Tao, N Zhang, D Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the performance of base station (BS) coordination in heterogeneous
networks (HetNets) with cache-enabled and renewable energy-powered small cell BSs …

Energy efficiency of cross-tier base station cooperation in heterogeneous cellular networks

W Nie, F Zheng, X Wang, S Jin, W Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1867, 2014 - arxiv.org
Heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) are to be deployed for future wireless
communication to meet the ever-increasing mobile traffic demand. However, the dense and …

Content-aware cooperative transmission in HetNets with consideration of base station height

H Wu, N Zhang, Z Wei, S Zhang, X Tao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With macrocell base stations (MBSs) providing basic coverage for mobile users, the multiple
tiers of cache-enabled small-cell base stations (SBSs) can opportunistically form user …

User-centric cross-tier base station clustering and cooperation in heterogeneous networks: Rate improvement and energy saving

W Nie, FC Zheng, X Wang, W Zhang… - IEEE Journal on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) are to be deployed for future wireless
communication to meet the ever-increasing mobile traffic demand. However, the dense and …

Joint effect of user activity sensing and biased cell association in energy efficient hetnets

S Fan, H Tian, W Wang - IEEE Communications Letters, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In heterogeneous networks, the active/sleep strategy for base stations (BSs) provides an
effective way to match capacity to demand and also improve energy efficiency. At the same …

Fundamentals of simultaneous wireless information and power transmission in heterogeneous networks: A cell-load perspective

CH Liu, CS Hsu - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) consisting of multiple different types (tiers) of
base stations (BSs), the void cell event in which a BS does not have any users has been …

Energy efficiency analysis of cache-enabled two-tier HetNets under different spectrum deployment strategies

Z Yan, S Chen, Y Ou, H Liu - IEEE Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) consisting of macrocells overlaid with small cells (eg
femtocell, picocell, microcell, and relay) are conceived as an appealing technology to cope …

Energy-efficiency study for two-tier heterogeneous networks (HetNet) under coverage performance constraints

X Zhang, Z Su, Z Yan, W Wang - Mobile Networks and Applications, 2013 - Springer
Recently, heterogeneous networks (HetNet) have been widely studied as an effective
approach to provide high network capacity and coverage, which jointly utilizes the …

Analysis and cache design in spatially correlated HetNets with base station cooperation

S Kuang, N Liu - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Caching popular contents at the base stations (BSs) is a promising way to reduce the
backhaul congestion. In this paper, we consider the scenario of BS cooperation for a cache …

Backhaul aware joint uplink and downlink user association for delay‐power trade‐offs in HetNets with hybrid energy sources

D Liu, Y Chen, KK Chai, T Zhang - Transactions on Emerging …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In cellular networks, conventional user association algorithms are solely based on downlink
(DL) performance, which may lead to inefficient transmission power and high interference in …