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Final report on the evaluation of RRM/CRRM algorithms
Deliverable public del projecte EVERESTThis deliverable provides a definition and a complete evaluation of the RRM/CRRM algorithms selected in D11 and D15, and evolved and refined on an iterative process. The evaluation will be carried out by means of simulations using the simulators provided at D07, and D14.Preprin
A Tractable Model of the LTE Access Reservation Procedure for Machine-Type Communications
A canonical scenario in Machine-Type Communications (MTC) is the one
featuring a large number of devices, each of them with sporadic traffic. Hence,
the number of served devices in a single LTE cell is not determined by the
available aggregate rate, but rather by the limitations of the LTE access
reservation protocol. Specifically, the limited number of contention preambles
and the limited amount of uplink grants per random access response are crucial
to consider when dimensioning LTE networks for MTC. We propose a low-complexity
model of LTE's access reservation protocol that encompasses these two
limitations and allows us to evaluate the outage probability at click-speed.
The model is based chiefly on closed-form expressions, except for the part with
the feedback impact of retransmissions, which is determined by solving a fixed
point equation. Our model overcomes the incompleteness of the existing models
that are focusing solely on the preamble collisions. A comparison with the
simulated LTE access reservation procedure that follows the 3GPP
specifications, confirms that our model provides an accurate estimation of the
system outage event and the number of supported MTC devices.Comment: Submitted, Revised, to be presented in IEEE Globecom 2015; v3: fixed
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Quantifying Potential Energy Efficiency Gain in Green Cellular Wireless Networks
Conventional cellular wireless networks were designed with the purpose of
providing high throughput for the user and high capacity for the service
provider, without any provisions of energy efficiency. As a result, these
networks have an enormous Carbon footprint. In this paper, we describe the
sources of the inefficiencies in such networks. First we present results of the
studies on how much Carbon footprint such networks generate. We also discuss
how much more mobile traffic is expected to increase so that this Carbon
footprint will even increase tremendously more. We then discuss specific
sources of inefficiency and potential sources of improvement at the physical
layer as well as at higher layers of the communication protocol hierarchy. In
particular, considering that most of the energy inefficiency in cellular
wireless networks is at the base stations, we discuss multi-tier networks and
point to the potential of exploiting mobility patterns in order to use base
station energy judiciously. We then investigate potential methods to reduce
this inefficiency and quantify their individual contributions. By a
consideration of the combination of all potential gains, we conclude that an
improvement in energy consumption in cellular wireless networks by two orders
of magnitude, or even more, is possible.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1210.843
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