Green Mobile Access Network with Dynamic Base Station Energy Saving

TLDR

The ICT industry is a major global energy consumer. This study addresses energy savings at base stations, which dominate network power use. The authors propose dynamically deactivating base stations during low traffic, evaluating both centralized and decentralized control schemes. Simulations show the algorithms improve energy efficiency while balancing coverage, revealing a trade‑off between savings and service quality.

Abstract

The explosive development of ICT (information and communication technology) industry has emerged as one of the major sources of world energy consumption. Therefore, this paper concerns about the BS (base station) energy saving issue, for most energy consumption of the communication network comes from the BSs and the core network. Particularly, we consider dynamically turning off certain BSs when the network traffic is low. Centralized and decentralized implementations are investigated. Simulations demonstrate the energy efficiency of the proposed algorithms and the tradeoff between energy saving and coverage guarantee.