Energy efficiency in wireless cellular networks based on dynamic power allocation

Energy efficiency is increasingly vital for wireless cellular systems due to the limited battery resources of mobile clients. Among previous work, many studies suggest different methods to reduce the transmission power in case of a fixed condition. However, according to the mobility of users and continuous variation of cellular network environment, the traffic load of base station (BS) and the channel state information (CSI) are varying. In this paper, we proposed a dynamic power allocation schedule to assign transmit power to mobile users in the downlink, resulting in optimal energy saving. The novel power allocation scheme was based on the coordination of neighbouring cells. The results showed that the scheme dramatically reduce the average bit error rate (BER) and total tranmitted power of the system, with the improvement of network capacity.