The emerging traffic demand has triggered an impressive deployment of network infrastructure, including macro Base Stations (BSs) and Small Cells (SCs), leading to increased energy consumption and expenditures. However, ...

Reducing the energy consumption in wireless networks has become a significant problem, not only because of its great impact on the global energy crisis, but also because it represents a noteworthy cost for telecommunication ...

Network infrastructure sharing and base station switching off mechanisms have been recently introduced as promising solutions toward energy and cost reduction in cellular networks. Although these techniques are usually ...

The emerging traffic demand has fueled the rapid densification of cellular networks. The increased number of Base Stations (BSs) leads to augmented energy consumption and expenditures for the Mobile Network Operators ...

In this paper, we propose a switch on/off algorithm for Base Stations (BSs), which exploits the knowledge of the distance between the User Equipments (UEs) and their associated BS. Our novel approach hopes to provide ...

The explosive data traffic demands stress the need for additional capacity in cellular systems, which can be achieved through the exploitation of Small Cells (SCs). However, the deployment of SCs implies higher energy ...