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Improving Energy Efficiency Through Multimode Transmission in the Downlink MIMO Systems
Adaptively adjusting system parameters including bandwidth, transmit power
and mode to maximize the "Bits per-Joule" energy efficiency (BPJ-EE) in the
downlink MIMO systems with imperfect channel state information at the
transmitter (CSIT) is considered in this paper. By mode we refer to choice of
transmission schemes i.e. singular value decomposition (SVD) or block
diagonalization (BD), active transmit/receive antenna number and active user
number. We derive optimal bandwidth and transmit power for each dedicated mode
at first. During the derivation, accurate capacity estimation strategies are
proposed to cope with the imperfect CSIT caused capacity prediction problem.
Then, an ergodic capacity based mode switching strategy is proposed to further
improve the BPJ-EE, which provides insights on the preferred mode under given
scenarios. Mode switching compromises different power parts, exploits the
tradeoff between the multiplexing gain and the imperfect CSIT caused inter-user
interference, improves the BPJ-EE significantly.Comment: 19 pages, 10 figures, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and
Networking; EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2011)
2011:20
Cores of Cooperative Games in Information Theory
Cores of cooperative games are ubiquitous in information theory, and arise
most frequently in the characterization of fundamental limits in various
scenarios involving multiple users. Examples include classical settings in
network information theory such as Slepian-Wolf source coding and multiple
access channels, classical settings in statistics such as robust hypothesis
testing, and new settings at the intersection of networking and statistics such
as distributed estimation problems for sensor networks. Cooperative game theory
allows one to understand aspects of all of these problems from a fresh and
unifying perspective that treats users as players in a game, sometimes leading
to new insights. At the heart of these analyses are fundamental dualities that
have been long studied in the context of cooperative games; for information
theoretic purposes, these are dualities between information inequalities on the
one hand and properties of rate, capacity or other resource allocation regions
on the other.Comment: 12 pages, published at
http://www.hindawi.com/GetArticle.aspx?doi=10.1155/2008/318704 in EURASIP
Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special Issue on "Theory
and Applications in Multiuser/Multiterminal Communications", April 200
On Energy Efficient Hierarchical Cross-Layer Design: Joint Power Control and Routing for Ad Hoc Networks
In this paper, a hierarchical cross-layer design approach is proposed to
increase energy efficiency in ad hoc networks through joint adaptation of
nodes' transmitting powers and route selection. The design maintains the
advantages of the classic OSI model, while accounting for the cross-coupling
between layers, through information sharing. The proposed joint power control
and routing algorithm is shown to increase significantly the overall energy
efficiency of the network, at the expense of a moderate increase in complexity.
Performance enhancement of the joint design using multiuser detection is also
investigated, and it is shown that the use of multiuser detection can increase
the capacity of the ad hoc network significantly for a given level of energy
consumption.Comment: To appear in the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and
Networking, Special Issue on Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Network
Evaluation of the potential for energy saving in macrocell and femtocell networks using a heuristic introducing sleep modes in base stations
In mobile technologies two trends are competing. On the one hand, the mobile access network requires optimisation in energy consumption. On the other hand, data volumes and required bit rates are rapidly increasing. The latter trend requires the deployment of more dense mobile access networks as the higher bit rates are available at shorter distance from the base station. In order to improve the energy efficiency, the introduction of sleep modes is required. We derive a heuristic which allows establishing a baseline of active base station fractions in order to be able to evaluate mobile access network designs. We demonstrate that sleep modes can lead to significant improvements in energy efficiency and act as an enabler for femtocell deployments
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