TY - GEN
T1 - Energy scope of handoff strategies in macro-femtocell environments
AU - Leon, Jaime
AU - Bader, Faouzi
AU - Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - Energy consumption in downlink mode is becoming an important topic as cellular communications grow into a large scale enterprise. The search for high rates keeping energy constraints low has put forward the idea that cells with smaller size may improve not only the capacity of the network, but also reduce the amount of energy that is needed to achieve such capacities. When using heterogeneous networks, users can be encouraged to handoff to a femtocell, that offers better capacity per unit energy spent, by means of different handoff strategies. These strategies may also improve the energy use of the network if the handoff priority is given to both, capacity, and energy use. © 2012 IEEE.
AB - Energy consumption in downlink mode is becoming an important topic as cellular communications grow into a large scale enterprise. The search for high rates keeping energy constraints low has put forward the idea that cells with smaller size may improve not only the capacity of the network, but also reduce the amount of energy that is needed to achieve such capacities. When using heterogeneous networks, users can be encouraged to handoff to a femtocell, that offers better capacity per unit energy spent, by means of different handoff strategies. These strategies may also improve the energy use of the network if the handoff priority is given to both, capacity, and energy use. © 2012 IEEE.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/564555
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6364777/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871985294&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364777
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364777
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781457720529
SP - 5762
EP - 5766
BT - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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