TY - GEN
T1 - Energy efficiency and cell coverage area analysis for macrocell networks
AU - Abdulkafi, Ayad Atiyah
AU - Tiong, Sieh Kiong
AU - Koh, Johnny
AU - Chieng, David
AU - Ting, Alvin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The issues of energy efficiency and environmental protection are becoming critical issues for both fixed and wireless network operators worldwide. For wireless network operators, the challenge generally lies on providing maximum energy efficiency with largest possible coverage area. In this paper we first investigate the parameters affecting energy efficiency and the cell coverage area. We later analyze the relationship between area power consumption and transmission range (cell radius), transmission power, frequency band, shadowing and the path-loss exponent. From the analysis, optimal inter site distance that utilizing minimum area power consumption can be obtained for different percentage requirement of coverage area corresponding to minimum transmit power that achieves this degree of coverage. The optimal inter site distance is determined for macrocell without the impact of shadowing to be equal about 1250m with minimum area power consumption of 526 W/km 2. With the effect of shadowing, the optimal inter site distance and minimum area power consumption are 1050 m and 778.7 W/km 2 respectively.
AB - The issues of energy efficiency and environmental protection are becoming critical issues for both fixed and wireless network operators worldwide. For wireless network operators, the challenge generally lies on providing maximum energy efficiency with largest possible coverage area. In this paper we first investigate the parameters affecting energy efficiency and the cell coverage area. We later analyze the relationship between area power consumption and transmission range (cell radius), transmission power, frequency band, shadowing and the path-loss exponent. From the analysis, optimal inter site distance that utilizing minimum area power consumption can be obtained for different percentage requirement of coverage area corresponding to minimum transmit power that achieves this degree of coverage. The optimal inter site distance is determined for macrocell without the impact of shadowing to be equal about 1250m with minimum area power consumption of 526 W/km 2. With the effect of shadowing, the optimal inter site distance and minimum area power consumption are 1050 m and 778.7 W/km 2 respectively.
KW - cell overage area
KW - energy efficiency
KW - macrocell network
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84862898335&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICFCN.2012.6206866
DO - 10.1109/ICFCN.2012.6206866
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84862898335
SN - 9781467302609
T3 - 2012 International Conference on Future Communication Networks, ICFCN 2012
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - 2012 International Conference on Future Communication Networks, ICFCN 2012
T2 - 2012 International Conference on Future Communication Networks, ICFCN 2012
Y2 - 10 April 2012 through 12 April 2012
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