Green Cloud Radio Access Networks
Alaa Alameer, Aydin Sezgin

TL;DR
This paper proposes a distributed optimization framework for green cloud radio access networks powered by renewable energy, aiming to reduce operational costs and power consumption while maintaining user quality of service.
Contribution
It formulates a cost-minimization problem in green C-RANs as a large-scale non-convex optimization and develops a distributed solution using ADMM with problem reformulation.
Findings
Effective cost and power reduction demonstrated
Distributed optimization enables scalable solutions
Reformulation improves problem tractability
Abstract
Cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) are a promising technology to enable the ambitious vision of the fifth generation (5G) communication networks. In spite of the potential benefits of C-RAN, the operational costs are still a challenging issue, mainly due to the centralized processing scheme and the large number of operating remote radio head (RRH) connecting to the cloud. In this work we consider a setup in which a CRAN is powered partially with a set of renewable energy sources (RESs), our aim is to minimize the processing/backhauling costs at the cloud centre as well as the transmission power at the RRHs, while satisfying some user quality of service (QoS). This problem is first formulated as a mixed integer non linear program (MINLP) with a large number of optimization variables. The underlying NLP is non-convex, though we address this issue through reformulating the problem using…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced MIMO Systems Optimization · Wireless Communication Networks Research · Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
