Enhancing the Energy Efficiency of Radio Base Stations

TL;DR

This paper investigates methods to improve the energy efficiency of LTE radio base stations by reducing their power consumption while maintaining service quality, focusing on capacity-power trade-offs.

Contribution

It introduces mechanisms that enhance base station energy efficiency through capacity-power trade-offs, addressing a key power consumer in cellular networks.

Findings

Proposed mechanisms reduce BS power consumption.

Maintains target data rate constraints.

Improves overall cellular network energy efficiency.

Abstract

This thesis is concerned with the energy efficiency of cellular networks. It studies the dominant power consumer in future cellular networks, the Long Term Evolution radio base stations (BS), and proposes mechanisms that enhance the BS energy efficiency by reducing its power consumption under target rate constraints. These mechanisms trade spare capacity for power saving.