Energy saving market for mobile operators
M. M. Aftab Hossain, Riku J\"antti, Cicek Cavdar

TL;DR
This paper introduces a double auction market mechanism for multi-MNO capacity sharing, enabling energy savings by dynamically adjusting network capacity without requiring information sharing among operators.
Contribution
It proposes a novel auction-based market mechanism for capacity sharing among MNOs to reduce energy consumption, especially during varying traffic loads.
Findings
Significant energy cost savings achieved across various network loads.
Dynamic capacity sharing outperforms traditional energy-saving methods like cell sleep.
The auction mechanism effectively handles traffic bursts while conserving energy.
Abstract
Ensuring seamless coverage accounts for the lion's share of the energy consumed in a mobile network. Overlapping coverage of three to five mobile network operators (MNOs) results in enormous amount of energy waste which is avoidable. The traffic demands of the mobile networks vary significantly throughout the day. As the offered load for all networks are not same at a given time and the differences in energy consumption at different loads are significant, multi-MNO capacity/coverage sharing can dramatically reduce energy consumption of mobile networks and provide the MNOs a cost effective means to cope with the exponential growth of traffic. In this paper, we propose an energy saving market for a multi-MNO network scenario. As the competing MNOs are not comfortable with information sharing, we propose a double auction clearinghouse market mechanism where MNOs sell and buy capacity in…
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Taxonomy
TopicsICT Impact and Policies · Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization · Green IT and Sustainability
