Energy and Spectrum Efficient Transmission Techniques Under QoS Constraints Toward Green Heterogeneous Networks

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 3; pp. 1655 - 1671
• Main Authors: Pervaiz, Haris, Musavian, Leila, Ni, Qiang, Ding, Zhiguo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2015; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Combinatorial analysis; Communication systems; Constraint modelling; Energy conversion efficiency; Energy efficiency; Energy Efficiency and Spectrum Efficiency; Green Communications; HetNets; Indicators; Iterative methods; Mathematical programming; Microcell networks; Multiple objective analysis; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing; Pareto optimization; Pareto optimum; Polynomials; Quality of service architectures; Resource Allocation; Resource management; Small Cells; Spread spectrum management; Subcarriers; Sustainable development; Tradeoffs; Upper bounds; energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency; green communications; resource allocation; HetNets; small cells

This paper proposes a joint energy efficiency (EE) and spectrum efficiency (SE) tradeoff analysis as a multi-objective optimization problem (MOP) in the uplink of multi-user multi-carrier two-tier orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access heterogeneous networks subject to users' maximum...