Energy-Aware Base Stations: The Effect of Planning, Management, and Femto Layers

We compare the performance of three base station management schemes on three different network topologies. In addition, we explore the effect of offloading traffic to heterogeneous femtocell layer upon energy savings taking into account the increase of base station switch-off time intervals. Fairnes...

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Main Authors: G. Koutitas, L. Chiaraviglio, Delia Ciullo, M. Meo, L. Tassiulas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/190586