DESIGNING AND ANALYSING A TECHNIQUE TO SWITCH ON/OFF BASE STATIONS FOR GREEN CELLULAR NETWORKS

Weston Mwashita, Marcel Ohanga Odhiambo

Abstract: There has been an astronomical increase in data traffic demand as people want to get connected whilst they are on the move and as new devices like smart phones and tablets become affordable gadgets. Mobile network providers have responded to this growth by expanding their networks and naturally this has seen a rapid increase in Base Stations (BSs) all over the world. This trend has led to the telecommunications sector contributing a sizable percentage of emissions to the atmosphere. Designing Base stations that consume energy corresponding to network traffic will go a long way in reducing emissions .In this paper, an algorithm that can be used to switch ON/OFF BSs with the traffic variation is designed and analysed.

Keywords: Base station sleeping, energy efficiency, Base station-user association, Quality of Service (QoS).ax

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0407053