DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017711
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Adaptive Cell Zooming Strategy Toward Next-Generation Cellular Networks with Joint Transmission
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, ON, Canada
2Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, Korea
3Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, 602117, India
4Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, A’Sharqiyah University, Ibra, 400, Oman
5School of Telecommunication Engineering, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
6Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Alkharj, 11942, Saudi Arabia
7Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Taif University, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia
*Corresponding Author: Peerapong Uthansakul. Email: uthansakul@sut.ac.th
Received: 08 February 2021; Accepted: 12 March 2021
Abstract: The Internet subscribers are expected to increase up to 69.7% (6 billion) from 45.3% and 25 billion Internet-of-things connections by 2025. Thus, the ubiquitous availability of data-hungry smart multimedia devices urges research attention to reduce the energy consumption in the fifth-generation cloud radio access network to meet the future traffic demand of high data rates. We propose a new cell zooming paradigm based on joint transmission (JT) coordinated multipoint to optimize user connection by controlling the cell coverage in the downlink communications with a hybrid power supply. The endeavoring cell zooming technique adjusts the coverage area in a given cluster based on five different JT schemes, which will help in reducing the overall power consumption with minimum inter-cell interference. We provide heuristic solutions to assess wireless network performances in terms of aggregate throughput, energy efficiency index (EEI), and energy consumption gain under a different scale of network settings. The suggested algorithm allows efficient allocation of resource block and increases energy and spectral efficiency over the conventional location-centric cell zooming mechanism. Extensive system-level simulations show that the proposed framework reduces energy consumption yielding up to 17.5% and increases EEI by 14%. Subsequently, a thorough comparison among different JT-based load shifting schemes is pledged for further validation of varying system bandwidths.
Keywords: Wireless networks; green communications; C-RAN; coordinated multipoint; energy efficiency
With the technological advancement of cellular networks, by 2023, more than 70% of the population will have wireless connectivity globally, and fifth-generation (5G) connectivity will reach over 10%. The rapid growth of wireless subscribers and corresponding multimedia applications increases energy consumption and deteriorates the global warming phenomenon. Internet subscribers are expected to increase up to 69.7% (6 billion) from 45.3% and 25 billion Internet-of-things connections by 2025 [1]. To deal with the exponential growth of subscribers and smart devices, the telecom industries are extensively deploying more small base stations (BSs) and wireless equipment in radio access networks. The consequences of this upgrade significantly increase the network energy expenditures, which also elevated capital and operational expenses. However, cellular networks consume approximately 0.7% of the global power expenditure and 4%–5% of the information and communication technology (ICT) circle [2]. BSs in cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) are generally believed to be the main energy-hungry equipment in telecom networks, where energy consumption is directly related to the incoming traffic profile [3]. From the energy efficiency (EE) perspectives, wireless networks can be optimized by the following: (i) improving the hardware components, (ii) optimizing radio transmission process, (iii) turning off BS components, (iv) deployment of small cells, (v) curtailing energy losses, and (vi) adopting renewable energy (RE) sources [4]. This study focused on integrating the RE supply through the adaptive cell zooming policy under a green radio communication scheme.
A study reveals that the ICT sector is one of the key sources of global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion. Doubling the carbon production rates leads to a 6
Recently, cellular networks have adopted the technique of multiple BS coordination in a cluster referred to as a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission by utilizing the same frequency and time resources [7]. The CoMP technique is primarily introduced to mitigate the interference and spectrum scarcity problems by serving the same user equipment (UE). In CoMP transmission, BSs coordinate in such a way that either BSs serve to a single UE using the same network resources or BSs coordinate transmission among themselves to cancel out inter-cell interference. In addition, the CoMP technique has the potential to improve throughput performance by enhancing received signal quality and spectral efficiency (SE), thereby ensuring signal fairness [8]. Based on the data availability, the downlink CoMP can be classified into three categories, namely, dynamic point transmission, joint transmission (JT), and coordinated beamforming. This study focuses on different types of JT CoMP techniques into hybrid-powered 5G cellular networks by identifying better coordination strategies.
Typically, BSs are operating under maximum transmission power regardless of the traffic demand, which can incur additional power loss during low traffic hour periods. The BSs are anticipated to dynamically adjust, that is, shut-down/wake-up, according to the temporal variation of traffic load or other factors, such as UE-BS distance and availability of resource blocks (RBs) in the context of energy-efficient 5G cellular communications. Moreover, the cell zooming mechanism in BSs enables to dynamically adjust its coverage based on the traffic demand and increase the retrenchment of power expenditure under given criteria [9]. With grid-enabled macrocell BSs, the neighboring BSs cannot be forced to a full sleep mode for a long period of time as the inter-site distance between the BSs is identical in a cluster. A previous study [10] showed that a UE of poor channel conditions occupies considerable RBs to provide a given bit rate. This study considers the joint coordination CoMP technique where a UE receives the best signal quality owing to a higher number of RB allocation. As a result, the BS-centric cell zooming algorithm has been recognized as a more energy-efficient method of serving more numbers of UEs with a given RBs over the UE-centric way.
Several previous studies paid attention to BS topology management considering traffic redistribution during off-peak hours. In [11], the authors reported the cell zooming method based on the traffic demand fluctuations without investigating the data transmission quality. Then, in [12], the authors suggested a suboptimal BS on/off method that is distributively implemented to save overall energy consumption. However, this study ignored the dynamic fluctuations of traffic load and received signal quality. In addition, the authors in [13] pointed out transmission quality issues, where the transmission power and cell coverage adaptions are based according to the traffic load, but [13] analyzed for a single-cell case. Furthermore, authors in [14] proposed energy procurement between cellular operators as a single group, where the BSs share the traffic arrivals by turning off the BS into a sleep mode during low traffic hours.
To reduce the carbon footprints more effectively, the issues of energy harvested-enabled green BSs have been developed to incorporate the cell zooming scheme [15]. By taking advantage of hybrid energy supplies, BSs are designed to overcome the limitations of standalone RE-powered cellular networks. To mitigate the RE fluctuations among collocated BSs, the authors in [16] proposed an energy cooperation policy between BSs according to the traffic profile. The authors examined the joint optimization of RB allocation and BS on/off [17] and optimal packet scheduling [18] with hybrid supplies under user blocking constraints. The tradeoff between EE and traffic latency is investigated in [19], where the burst traffic patterns exhibit better EE performance enabling more BSs into a sleeping mode compared with uniform traffic distributions. All of the reported research works analyzed the system performances through sleep–wake up or cell zooming mechanisms by adjusting traffic load and transmission power. However, none of these works have analyzed the CoMP-based cell zooming technique considering traffic load fluctuations.
Authors in [20] presented the concept of cell breathing in the form of cell zooming, traffic offloading, and BS turning off for heterogeneous networks (HetNets) for EE BS topology management. Then, the authors extended this work contemplating the multi-metric UE-BS association approach with hybrid supplies [21]. A joint radio resource management and load balancing technique are proposed for HetNets based on traffic density-differentiated policies [22]. The authors in [23] provided insights on a coordinated small cell on/off schemes, providing offloading support for macrocell BSs. The authors proposed a green user association policy for cloud RAN network architecture based on the virtualized algorithms to measure energy availability information [24]. The authors in [14] studied energy-aware adaptive transmit power control mechanisms for energy cooperation-aided mmWave renewable-powered cellular networks. This work does not consider the stochastic nature of traffic diversity and coordination mechanisms. In the present study, we examined the EE and SE performance defining some performance metrics accounting for adaptive cell zooming policy and dynamic nature of traffic load.
Existing available research works focusing on improving transmission capacity, quality of experience, and SE ignoring the demand for energy-efficient aspects for mobile communications. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study first considers the CoMP-based cell zooming technique in the context of green cellular communications. Notably, the system only considers two BSs for user-BS connection algorithms under JT CoMP-enabled cell-adjusting technique. The major contributions of this study can be outlined as follows.
• A generalized solar photovoltaic (PV)/grid aggregate power supply for the C-RAN is developed, which addresses EE and ecological issues.
• Several performance metrics, such as energy consumption gain (ECG), energy-saving index (ESI), and energy efficiency index (EEI), which are used to assess overall EE varying load factor and system bandwidth, have been illustrated.
• A heuristic energy-efficient framework is developed by integrating a joint coordination-based cell zooming scheme while considering the variation of RE production and traffic arrivals. Various user association schemes, such as SINR-SINR, SINR-traffic, SINR-distance, traffic-distance, and distance-distance, are exploited in the suggested framework, which has not been examined in the literature yet. After that, the system performance is compared with the existing non-CoMP-based cell zooming scheme for validation.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the system model. Section 3 discusses performance analysis, which includes simulation setup and results. Finally, Section 4 concludes the study by highlighting the attained results.
A large-scale two-tier homogeneous cellular network comprising of N number of BSs (B) and baseband unit (BBU) pool is considered where
Figure 1: JT CoMP-based user association schemes
We consider log-normally distributed shadow fading channel model, where path loss in dB can be expressed as
where d is the separation between the transmitter and receiver.
The received signal power in dBm for kth UE at a distance
where
Notably, that intra-cell interference is zero because of the orthogonal condition. PN is the additive white Gaussian noise power given by
The solar energy generated at BS
where CPV the rated PV array capacity in kW,
Figure 2: Cell solar radiation profile in Dhaka city
The total estimated power consumption by a macrocell BS is function of traffic intensity (
where
Figure 3: Daily traffic demand profile
Table 1: BS approximate power consumption model parameters [1]
Table 2: BS approximate power model parameters [1]
Energy consumption gain (ECG): ECG metrics account for the energy required to send a request in data transmission over a particular duration. ECG in green communications can be defined as the ratio of the energy consumption ratio metrics of the proposed system to the reference schemes under the specified network settings [24]. For instance, the network architecture without cell zooming is considered a reference baseline, and the cell zooming-enabled green-powered cellular system is the proposed scheme recognized as a more energy-efficient architecture. In other words, ECG quantifies the improvement of energy consumption with respect to the reference baseline scheme. A system with lower ECG is identified as more energy-efficient as this system consumes lower power to transmit the same amount of data transmission.
Energy-saving index (ESI): ESI metrics measure the energy-saving gain introducing the cell zooming concept under different zoom-out ranges. ESI can be defined as
where
Load factor (
Energy efficiency (
where
The idea of cell zooming allowing new incoming users by adjusting the cell size depends on different user association mechanisms. The cell zooming technique has the potential to increase EE by turning off lightly loaded BSs in a cluster. The centralized control server in the BBU pool coordinates the traffic load and makes zooming decisions accordingly. The zooming server broadcasts zooming in when the traffic intensity is higher and vice versa. The provisioning of the proposed sleep mode mechanism governed by the cell zooming method substantially reduces additional energy dissipation over the conventional user-centric zooming technique. Fig. 4 depicts the cell zooming strategy. Moreover, for better understanding, Figs. 4 and 5 show the heuristic cell zooming algorithm for SINR-traffic-enabled JT CoMP-based schemes.
Figure 4: Concepts of cell zooming. (a) Central cell zoom in (b) central cell zoom out
SINR-traffic-aware cell zooming: According to CoMP theory, a BS provides the maximum SINR, offering the best-received signal intensity to users. Moreover, lightly loaded BSs could either zoom out to serve more incoming users or zoom in to go into sleep mode for energy saving depending on the network settings. Under JT CoMP transmission, the BSs are sorted in a two-tier cluster in descending order of SINR and ascending order of traffic demand. In other words, a user is served jointly with two BSs that offer peak SINR and the BS having the closest distance. Notably, the closest BS does not always provide the best signal quality due to severe attenuation through shadow fading. The zooming procedure that incorporated this technique is known as the SINR-traffic-aware scheme. If the current traffic is less than the threshold limit (
Figure 5: SINR–SINR-based traffic steering cell zooming algorithm
We presume the same power profiles for all 19 cells in two tiers, and UEs are assumed to be distributed randomly over the given geographical area. In addition, every single active user that occupies one RB is considered throughout the simulations. Tab. 3 shows a set of input parameters for simulations in the MATLAB environment.
Fig. 6 depicts the variation of ECG with the cell zoom-out level for different UE-BS association schemes. All the user association methods follow a similar pattern to reach their minimum value with the increment of the zoom-out level. This finding signifies the improvement of energy expenses for the higher value of the zooming level. The distance-based user connection policy shows inferior performance compared with others. By contrast, the SINR-based scheme outperforms others. Notably, the ECG gap is apparently less significant between SINR and SINR-traffic-based methods. The reason is that the two BSs offering the best SINR and minimum existing traffic show almost close performance with the SINR technique at varying zooming levels. Notably, the SINR-based method resembles SINR–SINR, and distance–distance schemes can be represented as the distance only scheme; therefore, they are used interchangeably in this manuscript.
Table 3: Summary of simulation parameters [3]
Figure 6: ECG vs. cell zooming level under different user association schemes
The energy-saving performance follows a similar pattern for all UE-BS association schemes with the zoom-out options as shown in Fig. 7. All the curves are up trending with the increment of zooming level, and the energy-saving gap is insignificant because of the similar ECG behaviors. The energy-saving curve demonstrates the opposite trend of ECG with the percentage of zooming. However, the SINR-based scheme has excellent energy-saving capability over the conventional distance-based cell zooming mechanism. Similarly, in the ECG graph, the separation between SNIR and SNIR traffic-based schemes lies close together comparatively because both methods offer the best signal quality. Thus, a hybrid SINR–SINR-enabled zooming system is the preferred choice among others.
Figure 7: Comparison of energy saving vs. cell zooming level
Fig. 8 illustrates the comparison of throughput performance between JT CoMP-based cell zooming schemes with the conventional system, that is, non-CoMP-based systems. Notably, the throughput graph apparently follows the traffic demand shown in Fig. 3. According to the traffic load profile, the peak traffic arrivals occur at 8 PM when the maximum number of RBs is occupied. However, all the curves follow an identical pattern, and the distribution gap is substantial during peak traffic hours. Moreover, the gap is less significant for the SINR and SINR-traffic based schemes as explained beforehand. UE experiences better signal quality for the higher value of SINR resulting in higher throughput. The UE receives the best signal power under the SINR-based JT CoMP cell zooming scheme that exhibits better performance as shown in Fig. 8. Under the JT technique, the data received from two or more neighboring BSs to a particular UE lead to higher throughput performance.
Figure 8: Comparison of throughput performance
Figs. 9 and 10 show a detailed comparison of EEI for different zooming schemes under 10 MHz. According to the definition of EEI presented in the performance metrics section, EEI is evidently a direct function of throughput. Notably, the SINR-based CoMP method provides the highest SE and EE, including the joint SINR enhancement and lower level of power consumption. The SINR-enabled zoom-out technique attains approximately 87.5% more EE than that of a non-CoMP-based tradition distance-aware system. Moreover, EEI shifts toward an upward direction with the increment of the zoom put level. As expected, the suggested framework follows the gradual improvement of EEI with the cell coverage level observed in Fig. 10. Thus, we can be safely inferred that the SINR CoMP-based method offers superior EEI performance.
Figure 9: Comparison of EEI
Figure 10: EEI evaluation vs. cell zooming varying UE association schemes
Fig. 11 illustrates the EE performance with the system bandwidth for 2-kW installed solar capacity for each BS. In accordance with the definition, the scheme provides the peak throughput to uplift the EE. More RBs are allocated for the high system bandwidth. Therefore, EE curves start to increase in the upward direction to reach their maximum value identically as clearly seen from the figure. On the other hand, the SINR JT scheme offers the best utilization of RB in terms of maximum signal power to serve the associated UE.
Based on the aforementioned demonstration of Figs. 11, 12 illustrates the impact of cell zooming varying system bandwidth. A greater value of bandwidth and zooming level elevated EE performance significantly, that is, EE performance scaled with BW and zoom out level. The best system performance is obtained for the 20-MHz bandwidth and 100% cell zooming. However, the figure is derived for the SINR JT CoMP-based technique assuming that a 2-kW solar panel is installed in the BSs. Further analysis of the figure identifies that EE performance yields 63.7% better for the 20-MHz bandwidth than
Figure 11: EE vs. system bandwidth
Figure 12: EE vs. zooming level varying bandwidth
Fig. 13 presents the comparison of EE with the solar PV capacity demonstrating the performance of different user association schemes. As the solar capacity increases, the EE linearly scaled to reach the maximum point. Once again, the SINR-based scheme attains optimistic performance over all other schemes. For example, the SINR-based hybrid cellular system with 5 kW offers 32.4% more energy efficient than the
Figure 13: Variation of EE with installed PV capacity
Fig. 14 depicts a comprehensive comparison of the ESI with a load factor. Fig. 14 is derived for
Figure 14: ESI performance vs. load factor
This study presents a joint coordination-based adaptive cell zooming algorithm for Cloud-RAN networks powered by hybrid supplies. A combined integration of JT CoMP-enabled cell zooming green C-RAN networks shows remarkable SE and EE performance with minimum energy consumption. In light of this, energy reduction and throughput have been analyzed for the envisioned C-RAN networks. The SINR-based UE-BS association technique exhibits superior EE performance by prioritizing solar energy consumption over traditional grid electricity. The proposed joint green policy has shown high throughput, SE, and ESI and low degradation of signal quality. The results reveal that the greater cell zooming level and higher PV capacity depict an enhanced system performance among different schemes. A noticeable impact of load factor and system bandwidth on the proposed framework regardless of the zooming level is observed. A JT CoMP-based system is 87% more energy-efficient and achieves 17.5% more energy-saving performance than a non-CoMP-based cell zooming method. In a word, the EE level predominantly depends on the network configurations.
Funding Statement: This work was supported by SUT Research and Development Funds and by Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI). Also, this work was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. In addition, support by the Taif University Researchers Supporting Project Number (TURSP-2020/77), Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to report regarding the present study.
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