Heterogeneous cellular network (HCN), which generally consists of small cell base stations
(SBSs) and macro base stations (MBSs), is proposed as a promising scheme to improve the …

A dense deployment of on-grid small cell base stations (SBSs) in a heterogeneous cellular
network (HCN) results in large power consumption which can be reduced by utilizing …

Greening information and communications technology is becoming an environmental and
economic sine qua non, and has attracted much research attention. For a cellular network …

The mobile traffic explosion leads to dense deployed heterogeneous networks that can
support peak time traffic. However, the utilization of base stations (BSs) is very inefficient …

Green networks, which is put forward for the environmental and economic benefits, has
received much attention recently because of the vast energy cost in wireless cellular …

With the rapid growth of the number of cellular network users and their tendency to share
various multimedia files, providing better coverage for users and guaranteeing the quality of …

Green communications has received much attention recently. For cellular networks, the base
stations (BSs) account for more than 50 percent of the energy consumption of the networks …

Switching off base stations (BSs) is an effective and efficient energy-saving solution for
green cellular networks. The previous works focus mainly on when to switch off BSs without …

This paper focuses on energy efficiency that is a key performance metric in heterogeneous
cellular networks to two key areas. First, based on the Poisson point process distributions of …

The mobile traffic explosion predicted to be increased by 1000 times in the next 10 years
has become a remarkable issue due to the proliferation of smart devices such as smart …