Improving Energy Efficiency and Minimizing Backhaul Traffic in LTE-A Network with Cooperation and DTX Mechanism

Abstract

The promising approach to enhance energy efficiency (EE) in LTE-A network is to switch underutilized evolved node B (eNB) to sleep mode, but it increases the transmission power to guarantee the coverage under the remaining active eNBs. The increase in transmission power can be reduced by coordinated multi-point (CoMP) technique through eNB cooperation, but this technique consumes extra power due to backhaul traffic and signal processing. This problem can be solved by the proposed energy efficient acceleration factor failure rate (EEAFR) algorithm. The algorithm jointly considers the eNB cooperation and DTX mechanism to minimize the backhaul traffic with less failure rate. Also, to enhance energy efficiency, the proposed algorithm efficiently utilizes the cooperation in all traffic load scenarios based on the decision criteria and DTX mechanism. The results are compared with the existing AFEE and Green CoMP with Backhaul Traffic algorithm. In all the traffic loads EEAFR save 59.8% energy and reduces the network outage which depends on the failure rate of the eNB components