Assessment of Area Energy Efficiency of LTE Macro Base Stations in Different Environments

Energy efficiency (EE) of wireless telecommunications has become a new challenge for the research community, governments and industries in order to reduce CO2 emission and operational costs. EE of base stations (BSs) in cellular networks is a growing concern for cellular operators to not only mai...

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Main Authors: Shahab, Suhail Najm, Abdulkafi, Ayad Atiyah, Ayib Rosdi, Zainun
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spelling ump-89782018-01-16T07:55:35Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8978/ Assessment of Area Energy Efficiency of LTE Macro Base Stations in Different Environments Shahab, Suhail Najm Abdulkafi, Ayad Atiyah Ayib Rosdi, Zainun TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Energy efficiency (EE) of wireless telecommunications has become a new challenge for the research community, governments and industries in order to reduce CO2 emission and operational costs. EE of base stations (BSs) in cellular networks is a growing concern for cellular operators to not only maintain profitability, but also to reduce the overall negative impact to the environment and economic issues for wireless network operators. In this paper, a framework focuses on the Area Energy Efficiency (AEE) evaluation of LTE BSs is presented. The parameters affect on the AEE and the coverage area of LTE BS in different scenarios are investigated. AEE analysis has been done using a few key performance indicators including transmit power, bandwidth, load factor with the assumption of different scenarios (urban, suburban and rural). The simulation results show that the LTE BSs have better AEE in an urban environment for cell radius less than 750 m compare with the suburban and rural environments. Furthermore, it is obvious that there is a strong influence of traffic load, BW and transmission power on AEE of LTE network. On the other hand, AEE increases significantly as the BW size increases. Finally, it has been shown that the AEE of LTE macro BS decreases with increasing the percentage of traffic load for all scenarios National Institute of Telecommunications 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8978/1/Assessment%20of%20Area%20Energy%20Efficiency%20of%20LTE%20Macro%20Base%20Stations%20in%20Different%20Environments.pdf Shahab, Suhail Najm and Abdulkafi, Ayad Atiyah and Ayib Rosdi, Zainun (2015) Assessment of Area Energy Efficiency of LTE Macro Base Stations in Different Environments. Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 1. pp. 59-66. ISSN 1509-4553 (print); 1899-8852 (online) http://www.nit.eu/czasopisma/JTIT/2015/1/59.pdf
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Shahab, Suhail Najm
Abdulkafi, Ayad Atiyah
Ayib Rosdi, Zainun
Assessment of Area Energy Efficiency of LTE Macro Base Stations in Different Environments
description Energy efficiency (EE) of wireless telecommunications has become a new challenge for the research community, governments and industries in order to reduce CO2 emission and operational costs. EE of base stations (BSs) in cellular networks is a growing concern for cellular operators to not only maintain profitability, but also to reduce the overall negative impact to the environment and economic issues for wireless network operators. In this paper, a framework focuses on the Area Energy Efficiency (AEE) evaluation of LTE BSs is presented. The parameters affect on the AEE and the coverage area of LTE BS in different scenarios are investigated. AEE analysis has been done using a few key performance indicators including transmit power, bandwidth, load factor with the assumption of different scenarios (urban, suburban and rural). The simulation results show that the LTE BSs have better AEE in an urban environment for cell radius less than 750 m compare with the suburban and rural environments. Furthermore, it is obvious that there is a strong influence of traffic load, BW and transmission power on AEE of LTE network. On the other hand, AEE increases significantly as the BW size increases. Finally, it has been shown that the AEE of LTE macro BS decreases with increasing the percentage of traffic load for all scenarios
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author Shahab, Suhail Najm
Abdulkafi, Ayad Atiyah
Ayib Rosdi, Zainun
author_facet Shahab, Suhail Najm
Abdulkafi, Ayad Atiyah
Ayib Rosdi, Zainun
author_sort Shahab, Suhail Najm
title Assessment of Area Energy Efficiency of LTE Macro Base Stations in Different Environments
title_short Assessment of Area Energy Efficiency of LTE Macro Base Stations in Different Environments
title_full Assessment of Area Energy Efficiency of LTE Macro Base Stations in Different Environments
title_fullStr Assessment of Area Energy Efficiency of LTE Macro Base Stations in Different Environments
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of Area Energy Efficiency of LTE Macro Base Stations in Different Environments
title_sort assessment of area energy efficiency of lte macro base stations in different environments
publisher National Institute of Telecommunications
publishDate 2015
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8978/
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http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8978/1/Assessment%20of%20Area%20Energy%20Efficiency%20of%20LTE%20Macro%20Base%20Stations%20in%20Different%20Environments.pdf
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