Research Article
Dynamic Sleep Mode for Minimizing a Femtocell Power Consumption
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_51, author={R\^{e}mi Bonnefoi and Christophe Moy and Jacques Palicot}, title={Dynamic Sleep Mode for Minimizing a Femtocell Power Consumption}, proceedings={Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. 11th International Conference, CROWNCOM 2016, Grenoble, France, May 30 - June 1, 2016, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={CROWNCOM}, year={2016}, month={6}, keywords={Sleep mode Discontinuous transmission Green communications}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_51} }- Rémi Bonnefoi
Christophe Moy
Jacques Palicot
Year: 2016
Dynamic Sleep Mode for Minimizing a Femtocell Power Consumption
CROWNCOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_51
Abstract
The use of power control (PC) and discontinuous transmission (DTx) can reduce the average power consumption of mobile base stations (BS). In this paper, the power consumption of a picocell or a femtocell are analyzed in a time division multiple access (TDMA) scenario. The minimization of the power consumption is viewed as a constrained optimization problem and a closed form of the compromise between transmit power and transmission time which minimizes the average power consumption is found. Moreover, we show that for a base station with a low transmit power and a sufficient power saving during sleep mode, such as picocells and femtocells, the average power consumption is minimum when the service time is minimized. Finally, numerical results show that discontinuous transmission greatly decreases the average power consumption of the base station.