Journal
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 35, Issue 13, Pages 2669-2677Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2613095
Keywords
Cloud radio access network (C-RAN); energy consumption; network optimization; optical front-haul; passive optical network (PON)
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61275005]
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Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is a novel network architecture to meet the ever-increasing user demands. Specially, the operating expense of C-RAN, including the energy consumption, is an issue of common concern. Former studies in energy consumption evaluation of C-RAN only considered the case of one virtual server and one remote radio head, which ignored the optical front-haul and cannot provide an overall analysis for the whole access network. In this paper, we analyze the energy consumption of the whole C-RAN architecture, employing Ethernet-based time division multiplexing passive optical network (TDM-PON) (i.e. 10G- EPON) as the optical front-haul. Obviously, it becomes complex to analyze the energy problem for the whole network after bringing in the front-haul part. Based on queueing theory, this paper provides a new network traffic modeling for energy analysis in C-RAN. And, we propose a strategy to make the system work in the most energy-efficient state considering the quality of service. In addition, the comparison between C-RAN and 10G-EPON- LTE architecture has also been conducted. We analyze the power-delay tradeoff, the power changes along with request arrival rate, and the daily power distribution in the two networks. From the numerical results, C-RAN architecture can save more than 60% power in a typically low request arrival rate, and reduce about 40% energy for a whole day, considering the daily user behavior, which demonstrates its large potential in the next generation network.
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