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UC Irvine Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2017)

The focus of this dissertation is investigating energy and spectral efficiency in wireless heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Our goal is to improve the energy efficiency and spectral efficiency of the HetNets while satisfying the minimum rate requirements of the users. The contributions of this dissertations are (i) to develop an energy-efficient base station deployment framework for HetNets, (ii) to increase energy efficiency of the HetNets while satisfying minimum rate requirements of users, and (iii) to investigate energy efficiency-spectral efficiency tradeoff in HetNets. First, we address the micro base station deployment problem in HetNets. Although micro base station deployment increases the total capacity of the network, increasing the number of micro base stations excessively may reduce the energy efficiency of the network. Therefore, we examine the energy efficiency aspect of the micro base station deployment problem. We propose a greedy deployment algorithm which is a constant-factor approximation of the optimal solution. Second, we investigate the energy efficiency of downlink transmission in multi-cell HetNets. Our objective is to satisfy the rate requirement of users while maximizing energy efficiency of the network. We divide the problem into three subproblems: cell-center region boundary selection for fractional frequency reuse (FFR), scheduling, and power allocation subproblems. We propose a three-stage algorithm, and apply it iteratively until convergence. We demonstrate that significant gains can be achieved in terms of energy efficiency and outage probability using the proposed algorithm. Third, we investigate the energy efficiency-spectral efficiency tradeoff in multi-cell HetNets. Our objective is to maximize both energy efficiency and spectral efficiency of the network while satisfying the rate requirements of users. We define our objective function as the weighted summation of energy efficiency and spectral efficiency. We derive the Pareto optimal solution that strikes a balance between the spectral efficiency and energy efficiency.

    Cover page: Energy and Spectral Efficiency in Wireless Heterogeneous NetworksCreative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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    UC Irvine Previously Published Works (2015)
    Next generation wireless networks face the challenge of increasing energy consumption while satisfying the unprecedented increase in the data rate demand. To address this problem, we propose a utility-based energy-efficient resource allocation algorithm for the downlink transmissions in heterogeneous networks (HetNets). We consider the fractional frequency reuse (FFR) method in order to mitigate the intra- and inter-cell interference. The proposed algorithm divides the resource allocation problem into frequency and power assignment problems and sequentially solves them. The proposed power control algorithm uses the gradient ascent method to control the transmit power of macrocell base stations as most of the power in the network is consumed there. We also present the optimality conditions of the resource allocation problem and the convergence of the proposed algorithm. We study the performance of the proposed algorithm in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. Our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm provides substantial improvements in the energy efficiency and throughput of the network.
      Cover page: Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Fractional Frequency Reuse in Heterogeneous NetworksCreative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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