Power Control and Cell Discontinuous Transmission Used As a Means of Decreasing Small-Cell Networks' Energy Consumption.

In this paper, we analyze the issues of power control and cell discontinuous transmission in a small-cell network. More precisely, we evaluate the performance of a policy, thanks to which each base station minimizes its own energy consumption. We have recently proposed this policy in a mono-cell scenario and we extend the scope of our previous work in this article, as we propose to use this policy...