Flexible power modeling of LTE base stations

C Desset, B Debaillie, V Giannini… - 2012 IEEE wireless …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the explosion of wireless communications in number of users and data rates, the
reduction of network power consumption becomes more and more critical. This is especially …

[HTML][HTML] Measurements and modelling of base station power consumption under real traffic loads

J Lorincz, T Garma, G Petrovic - Sensors, 2012 - mdpi.com
Base stations represent the main contributor to the energy consumption of a mobile cellular
network. Since traffic load in mobile networks significantly varies during a working or …

Hetnets powered by renewable energy sources: Sustainable next-generation cellular networks

G Piro, M Miozzo, G Forte, N Baldo… - IEEE Internet …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Renewable energy could be the key for sustainable next-generation cellular networks. The
authors' approach would let mobile operators feed base stations in a heterogeneous …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple access spatial modulation

N Serafimovski, S Sinanović, MD Renzo… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2012 - Springer
In this study, we seek to characterise the behaviour of Spatial modulation (SM) in the
multiple access scenario. By only activating a single transmit antenna for any transmission …

Small cell deployments: Recent advances and research challenges

Z Bharucha, E Calvanese, J Chen, X Chu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2012 - arxiv.org
This paper summarizes the outcomes of the 5th International Workshop on Femtocells held
at King's College London, UK, on the 13th and 14th of February, 2012. The workshop hosted …

Energy efficiency in heterogeneous networks

L Falconetti, P Frenger, H Kallin… - 2012 IEEE Online …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An attractive approach to meet increasing traffic demands is to densify existing cellular
networks with low power nodes. This creates a heterogeneous network. In this paper we …

On the tradeoff between spectral efficiency and energy efficiency of homogeneous cellular networks with outage constraint

JB Rao, AO Fapojuwo - IEEE transactions on vehicular …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the tradeoff relationship between the spectral efficiency (SE) and energy
efficiency (EE) of homogenous cellular networks in which the BSs are arbitrarily distributed …

Energy-efficient power allocation for pilots in training-based downlink OFDMA systems

Z Xu, GY Li, C Yang, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, power allocation between pilots and data symbols is investigated to maximize
energy efficiency (EE) for downlink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) …

A measurement-based model of energy consumption in femtocells

R Riggio, DJ Leith - 2012 IFIP Wireless Days, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report detailed measurements of the electrical energy consumption of a commercial 3G
femtocell basestation. We propose a simple analytic model that accurately fits our measured …

Power amplifier switching (PAS) for energy efficient systems

J Joung, CK Ho, S Sun - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a power amplifier (PA) switching/selection (PAS) method to improve the energy
efficiency (EE) of a transmit antenna selection and maximum ratio combining (TAS-MRC) …