Design of 4G LTE testbed for implementing Green Cellular Algorithm

The high popularity of LTE standard amongst the users and the service providers is resulting in an ever-increasing number of devices being included in LTE service architecture. This rate of inclusion with the higher demand of improved QOS/QOE with high mobility is resulting in an increment in consumption of energy by the LTE service architectures. High consumption of energy being critical to the environment due to its impact during generation of energy, consumption along with its effect on energy consuming devices has given rise to the demand of energy efficient algorithms that mitigate this rising energy demand by the architectures. We adopt an innovative approach in form of a Green Cellular Algorithm towards this issue of energy management and propose a testbed design in implementation and experimentation of the solution. We describe the approach towards designing the testbed and features peculiar to the implementation of the adopted green cellular algorithm using the testbed. Further, we also illustrate few basic scenarios to demonstrate the working of the algorithm on the testbed. Finally, we come up with future improvements in the testbed with respect to its ability to scale is size, implement different power efficiency algorithms with existing setup and also with technical improvements in the testbed.