Dual-Level Game-Based Energy Efficiency and Fairness for Green Cellular Networks

Abstract EN

In the recent decades, cellular networks have revolutionized the way of next generation communication networks.

However, due to the global climate change, reducing the energy consumption of cellular infrastructures is an important and urgent problem.

In this study, we propose a novel two-level cooperative game framework for improving the energy efficiency and fairness in cellular networks.

For the energy efficiency, base stations (BSs) constantly monitor the current traffic load and cooperate with each other to maximize the energy saving.

For the energy fairness, renewable energy can be shared dynamically while ensuring the fairness among BSs.

To achieve an excellent cellular network performance, the concepts of the Raiffa Bargaining Solution and Jain’s fairness are extended and practically applied to our dual-level cooperative game model.

Through system level simulations, the proposed scheme is evaluated and compared with other existing schemes.

The simulation results show that our two-level game approach outperforms the existing schemes in providing a better fair-efficient system performance.