Performance Evaluation of Energy Harvesting Enabled Phantom Cellular Network

Deployment of conventional two-tier phantom cellular network results in an increase in overall power consumption of cellular systems. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of sustainable phantom cellular networks to reduce the overall power consumption. The Phantom Base Stations (PBSs) are enabled with Energy Harvesting (EH) from renewable energy resources. Addition of Phantom cells in the network provides with a capacity gain of 1.25 times over the conventional macro cellular network. This gain can be further enhanced by up to 2.6 times by using interference free PBSs (mitigating interference). Moreover, this paper presents a performance comparison of Round Robin (RR) and Proportional Fairness (PF) in terms of capacity and energy efficiency (EE). Finally, the use of renewable energy to power PBS can reduce carbon CO2 emission and will make our environment clean.

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