Green resource allocation for OFDMA wireless cellular networks

Packet scheduling algorithms are viewed as one of the key mechanisms for increasing the diversity order, robustness and effectiveness of a wireless multi-user communication system. Traditional packet scheduling are mainly designed to increase the system capacity. In this paper we present a novel scheduling algorithm that improves the scheduling energy efficiency in OFDMA based wireless cellular networks. Our goal is to reduce the overall downlink energy consumption while adapting the target of spectral efficiency to the actual load of the system and meeting the Quality of Service (QoS). Our analysis reveals how the proposed approach permits to achieve notable energy gain over traditional scheduling algorithm especially in not saturated scenarios.

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