Power-Delay Tradeoffs in Green Wireless Access Networks

Moety, Farah; Lahoud, Samer; Cousin, Bernard; Khawam, Kinda

doi:10.1109/vtcfall.2013.6692374

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“…The scalar optimization problems are binary non-linear. Such problems can be optimally solved using an exhaustive search algorithm [40]. However, the complexity of searching only for the operation mode of the BS is in O(N N bs l ).…”

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Optimization models for the joint Power-Delay minimization problem in green wireless access networks

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In wireless access networks, one of the most recent challenges is reducing the power consumption of the network, while preserving the quality of service perceived by users. Hence, mobile operators are rethinking their network design by considering two objectives, namely, saving power and guaranteeing a satisfactory quality of service. Since these objectives are conflicting, a tradeoff becomes inevitable. We formulate a multi-objective optimization with aims of minimizing the network power consumption and transmission delay. Power saving is achieved by adjusting the operation mode of the network base stations from high transmit power levels to low transmit levels or even sleep mode. Minimizing the transmission delay is achieved by selecting the best user association with the network base stations. In this article, we cover two different technologies: IEEE 802.11 and LTE. Our formulation captures the specificity of each technology in terms of the power model and radio resource allocation. After exploring typical multi-objective approaches, we resort to a weighted sum mixed integer linear program. This enables us to efficiently tune the impact of the power and delay objectives.We provide extensive simulations for various preference settings that enable to assess the tradeoff between power and delay in IEEE 802.11 WLANs and LTE networks. We show that for a power minimization setting, a WLAN consumes up to 16% less power than legacy solutions. A thorough analysis of the optimization results reveals the impact of the network topology, particularly the inter-cell distance, on both objectives. For an LTE network, we assess the impact of urban, rural and realistic deployments on the achievable tradeoffs. The power savings mainly depend on user distribution and the power consumption of the sleep mode. Compared with legacy solutions, we obtained power savings of up to 22.3% in a realistic LTE networks. When adequately tuned, our optimization approach reduces the transmission delay by up to 6% in a WLAN and 8% in an LTE network.technological developments in the past years to meet capacity and Quality of Service (QoS) demands for User Equipment (UE). Pushed by the needs to reduce energy, mobile operators have recently been rethinking network design for optimizing energy efficiency and satisfying user QoS requirements.Currently, over 80% of the power in mobile telecommunications is consumed by the radio access network, more specifically at the base station (BS) level [4]. Hence, many research activities focus on improving the energy efficiency of wireless access networks. In the following, we give an overview of these activities and classify them according to different approaches that run at different timescales.Planning and deployment: The planning of energy-efficient wireless networks and the deployment of energyaware BSs deal with the problem of determining the positioning of BSs, the type (e.g., macro, micro, pico or femto) and the number of BSs needed to be deployed. In this context, we find that heterogeneous networks ha...

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“…(P) is a binary non-linear optimization problem. Such problem can be solved using an exhaustive search algorithm [11]. However, the complexity of searching only for the operation mode of the BS is in O(N N bs l ).…”

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Joint power-delay minimization in 4G wireless networks

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Lahoud

Cousin

et al. 2014

2014 IFIP Wireless Days (WD)

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International audienceIn this paper, we formulate an optimization problem that jointly minimizes the network power consumption and transmission delay in broadband wireless networks. Power saving is achieved by adjusting the operation mode of the network Base Stations (BSs) from high transmit power levels to low transmit levels or switched-off. Minimizing the transmission delay is achieved by selecting the best user association with the BSs. We study the case of a realistic Long Term Evolution (LTE) Network where the challenge is the high computational complexity necessary to obtain the optimal solution. Therefore, we propose a simulated annealing based heuristic algorithm for the power-delay minimization problem. The proposed heuristic aims to compute the transmit power level of the network BSs and associate users with these BSs in a way that jointly minimizes the total network power and the total network delay. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has a low computational complexity which makes it advantageous compared with the optimal scheme. Moreover, the heuristic algorithm performs close to optimally and outperforms the existing approaches in realistic 4G deployments

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Power-Delay Tradeoffs in Green Wireless Access Networks

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Optimization models for the joint Power-Delay minimization problem in green wireless access networks

Optimization models for the joint Power-Delay minimization problem in green wireless access networks

Joint power-delay minimization in 4G wireless networks

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