A New Sustainable Mechanism to Wake-up Base Stations in Mobile Networks
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| Titre | A New Sustainable Mechanism to Wake-up Base Stations in Mobile Networks |
| Type de publication | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2016 |
| Auteurs | Allal I, Senouci S-M, Penhoat J, Gourhant Y |
| Conference Name | 2016 GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND NETWORKING SYMPOSIUM (GIIS) |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Conference Location | 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-5090-3608-0 |
| Mots-clés | Base Station, Energy Consumption, IoT, LoRa, Low Power Wide Area Networks, Switch ON/OFF, Wake-Up mechanism |
| Résumé | The Radio Access Network (RAN) represents the large amount of the annual energy consumed in mobile networks. The Base Station (BS) constitutes the main component of a RAN and the its switches ON/OFF is one of the most commonly used technique in literary work to reduce the energy consumption. However, a significant amount of energy is consumed by the BS even with the standby mode. In this paper, we address the problem of energy consumption in mobile networks and propose a new and original wake-up mechanism for base stations based on Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). Our proposal aims to carry out a complete shutdown of the base stations during low traffic periods in order to reduce the RAN energy consumption. Then, the wake-up process is handled by the Core Network through a LPWAN dedicated for Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as the Long Range (LoRa) system. We first present the architecture of our solution and we explain our wake-up mechanism. Then, we show the performance of our solution through simulation results. |