Green scheduling to minimize Base station transmit power and UE circuit power consumption

Packet scheduling algorithms are viewed as one of the key mechanisms for increasing the diversity order, robustness and effectiveness of a wireless multi-user communication systems. Traditional packet scheduling algorithms are designed to save energy at the Base-station(BS) in downlink by exploiting tradeoffs between spectral efficiency, delay and energy while at the same time meeting the QoS requirements of the system. However, these algorithms ignore the User-Equipment(UE) circuit power consumption to receive and process downlink traffic. In this paper, we show that the optimization of only BS transmit power consumption in downlink can lead to significant drain of UE battery power. Hence, we propose sub-optimal algorithms that exploit Discontinuous Transmission(DTX) at the base-station to tradeoff delay with energy consumption to improve Energy Efficiency (EE) of the UE circuit power and BS transmit power, while at the same time meeting the application QoS requirements in terms of throughput and service delay. The proposed algorithm is also shown to achieve good performance in saving transmit power at the base-station and also the UE circuit power consumption over traditional scheduling algorithms.