Energy-efficient cell activation, user association, and spectrum allocation in heterogeneous networks

B Zhuang, D Guo, ML Honig - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Next generation (5G) cellular networks are expected to be supported by an extensive
infrastructure with many-fold increase in the number of cells per unit area compared to …

Toward energy-efficient 5G wireless communications technologies: Tools for decoupling the scaling of networks from the growth of operating power

RLG Cavalcante, S Stanczak… - IEEE Signal …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The densification and expansion of wireless networks pose new challenges on energy
efficiency. With a drastic increase of infrastructure nodes (eg ultradense deployment of small …

Resource optimization with load coupling in multi-cell NOMA

L You, D Yuan, L Lei, S Sun… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimizing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in multi-cell scenarios is much more
challenging than the single-cell case because inter-cell interference must be considered …

Traffic-aware energy-saving base station sleeping and clustering in cooperative networks

J Kim, HW Lee, S Chong - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider energy efficient base station (BS) sleeping and clustering problems in
cooperative cellular networks, where clusters of base stations jointly transmit to users. Our …

Energy management in heterogeneous networks with cell activation, user association, and interference coordination

Q Kuang, W Utschick - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The densification and expansion of wireless network pose new challenges on interference
management and reducing energy consumption. This paper studies energy-efficient …

On the optimization of user association and resource allocation in HetNets with mm-wave base stations

C Chaieb, Z Mlika, F Abdelkefi, W Ajib - IEEE Systems Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the problem of joint user association and resource allocation,
defined by the number of allocated time-slots, in hybrid heterogeneous networks with the …

Distributed sparsity-aware sensor selection

H Jamali-Rad, A Simonetto, X Ma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The selection of the minimum number of sensors within a network to satisfy a certain
estimation performance metric is an interesting problem with a plethora of applications. The …

Active base station set optimization for minimal energy consumption in green cellular networks

Y Yang, L Chen, W Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To decrease potentially harmful effects to the environment and reduce costs of cellular
network operators, the exploration of energy saving is significant. In this paper, we shed light …

On the user association and resource allocation in HetNets with mmWave base stations

C Chaieb, Z Mlika, F Abdelkefi… - 2017 IEEE 28th annual …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Combining millimeter wave (mmWave) with sub-6 GHz communications is a promising
solution for future heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) to improve coverage and …

Energy-efficient downlink transmission with base station closing in small cell networks

L Su, C Yang, Z Xu, AF Molisch - 2013 IEEE International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Shutdown of low traffic load base stations (BSs) is recognized as a promising approach to
increase energy-efficiency (EE) and reduce total power consumption, especially for small …