Herlich, Matthias: Reducing energy consumption of radio access networks. 2014
Content
List of acronyms
List of symbols
List of figures
List of tables
Introduction
Radio access networks
Load, energy consumption, and latency
Splitting signaling and data traffic
Cooperative transmissions
General related work
Energy consumption on the BS level
Other wireless techniques
Energy consumption on the network level
Prediction
Moving and reducing load
Effects on the power grid
Contributions and chapter overview
Conserving energy at each BS individually
Introduction
Related work
Model
Poisson arrivals
Greedy policy
Accumulate & fire policy
Energy-minimizing policy
Latency-minimizing policy
Comparison
Adversary-controlled arrivals
Latency ratio: greedy policy
Latency ratio: accumulate & fire policy
Energy ratio: greedy policy
Energy ratio: accumulate & fire policy
Impossible trade-offs between energy and latency
Arbitrarily distributed random variables
Results
Conclusion
Conserving energy by coordinating sleep modes network-wide
Introduction
Related work
Model
Analysis of metrics for latency aggregation
Optimization model
Results
Conclusion
Conserving energy in signaling transmissions
Introduction
Related work
Model
Signaling with optimal BS spacing
Results
Deactivating opportunities with fixed BS spacing
Comparing ergodic and outage capacity
Conclusion
Conserving energy in data transmissions
Radiated power
Introduction
Related work
Model
Outage probability
Effective radiated power
Results
Scenarios with high gain
Outage probability and channel gain
Effective radiated power
Relating ERP and outage probability
Conclusion
Network simulation
Final thoughts
Proofs for the stretch metrics
Equality of stretch metrics for the geometric mean
Possible orders of metrics
Impossible orders
Bounds between metrics
Maximum of stretches
Stretch of maximum
Stretch of average
Average of stretches
Geometric mean of stretches
Latency in rings
Bibliography
Glossary