QoS vs. energy A traffic-aware topology management scheme for green heterogeneous networks》.pdf

Computer Networks 78 (2015) 130–139 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computer Networks journal homepage: www.else /locate/comnet QoS vs. energy: A traffic-aware topology management scheme for green heterogeneous networks M. Aykut Yigitel a,⇑, Ozlem Durmaz Incel b, Cem Ersoy a a Computer Networks Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342 Istanbul, Turkey b Department of Computer Engineering, Galatasaray University, Ortakoy, 34349 Istanbul, Turkey a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Increasing environmental awareness combined with the high energy prices has driven the Received 17 March 2014 network operators to reduce their carbon dioxide footprint by adopting energy efficient Received in revised form 22 September 2014 green methods. In this paper, we aim to save energy by both switching base stations on/ Accepted 1 October 2014 off and adaptively adjusting their transmission power according to the present traffic con- Available online 25 November 2014 ditions for heterogenous wireless cellular networks. We formulate a novel linear program- ming model for the Traffic-Aware Topology Management (TAM) problem to find the best Keywords: possible topology which minimizes the overall power consumption of the network while Green networking Cellular networks satisfying a certain Quality of Service level in Wideband Code