Inter-RAT Energy Saving for Multicast Services

Author

Kai Ying ; Hui Yu ; Hanwen Luo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

Volume

17

Issue

5

fYear

2013

fDate

May-13

Firstpage

900

Lastpage

903

Abstract

Green communication receives a growing number of concerns due to the consideration for energy and environment issues. On the other hand, the evolution of mobile and wireless communication also results in heterogeneous Radio Access Technologies (RATs), such as Wi-Fi, UMTS, LTE, CDMA2000 and so on. As a result, energy saving by inter-RAT cooperation has raised significant discussions in both industrial and academical worlds. In this paper, we concentrate on inter-RAT energy saving for multicast services. Moreover, we use Integer Linear Programming to model the problem and propose a distributed algorithm which can efficiently save the energy consumption.

Keywords

integer programming; linear programming; mobile communication; multicast communication; radio access networks; distributed algorithm; energy consumption; green communication; heterogeneous radio access technologies; integer linear programming; inter-RAT cooperation; inter-RAT energy saving; mobile communication; multicast services; wireless communication; 3G mobile communication; Algorithm design and analysis; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Long Term Evolution; Optimization; Power demand; Wireless communication; Inter-RAT; distributed algorithm; energy saving; integer linear programming; multicast;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2013.040213.130039

Filename

6496992