Towards a low energy LTE cellular network: Architectures

Author

Weisi Guo ; Turyagyenda, Charles ; Hamdoun, Hassan ; Siyi Wang ; Loskot, Pavel ; O´Farrell, Tim

Author_Institution

Inst. of Adv. Telecommun., Swansea Univ., Swansea, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 29 2011-Sept. 2 2011

Firstpage

879

Lastpage

883

Abstract

One of the emerging challenges faced by industrialists and academics is reducing the energy consumption of cellular networks. The impact of the growing energy consumption, both to the environment and to the operational expenditure of operators can no longer be neglected. This paper introduces the Mobile VCE (MVCE) Green Radio project, and some of its investigation results regarding network architecture. The project has set itself a goal to reduce total energy consumption by 100-fold. This paper focuses on the optimization of architectures, with the aim of significantly reducing energy consumption, whilst maintaining or improving the quality of service (QoS).

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; cellular radio; quality of service; MVCE project; QoS; energy consumption reduction; environment; low energy LTE cellular network; mobile VCE green radio project; network architecture; operational expenditure; quality of service; Antennas; Computer architecture; Energy consumption; Microprocessors; Optimization; Radio access networks; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Conference, 2011 19th European

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

2076-1465

Type

conf

Filename

7073936