Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Preprint |
| Published: |
2024
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00339 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1866917601424179200 |
|---|---|
| author | Zhou, Ouyang Wang, Junyuan Liu, Fuqiang Wang, Jiangzhou |
| author_facet | Zhou, Ouyang Wang, Junyuan Liu, Fuqiang Wang, Jiangzhou |
| contents | Ultra-densely deploying access points (APs) to support the increasing data traffic would significantly escalate the cell-edge problem resulting from traditional cellular networks. By removing the cell boundaries and coordinating all APs for joint transmission, the cell-edge problem can be alleviated, which in turn leads to unaffordable system complexity and channel measurement overhead. A new scalable clustered cell-free network architecture has been proposed recently, under which the large-scale network is flexibly partitioned into a set of independent subnetworks operating parallelly. In this paper, we study the energy-efficient clustered cell-free networking problem with AP selection. Specifically, we propose a user-centric ratio-fixed AP-selection based clustering (UCR-ApSel) algorithm to form subnetworks dynamically. Following this, we analyze the average energy efficiency achieved with the proposed UCR-ApSel scheme theoretically and derive an effective closed-form upper-bound. Based on the analytical upper-bound expression, the optimal AP-selection ratio that maximizes the average energy efficiency is further derived as a simple explicit function of the total number of APs and the number of subnetworks. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the derived optimal AP-selection ratio and show that the proposed UCR-ApSel algorithm with the optimal AP-selection ratio achieves around 40% higher energy efficiency than the baselines. The analysis provides important insights to the design and optimization of future ultra-dense wireless communication systems. |
| format | Preprint |
| id |
arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2403_00339 |
| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2024 |
| record_format | arxiv |
| spellingShingle | Energy-Efficient Clustered Cell-Free Networking with Access Point Selection Zhou, Ouyang Wang, Junyuan Liu, Fuqiang Wang, Jiangzhou Signal Processing Ultra-densely deploying access points (APs) to support the increasing data traffic would significantly escalate the cell-edge problem resulting from traditional cellular networks. By removing the cell boundaries and coordinating all APs for joint transmission, the cell-edge problem can be alleviated, which in turn leads to unaffordable system complexity and channel measurement overhead. A new scalable clustered cell-free network architecture has been proposed recently, under which the large-scale network is flexibly partitioned into a set of independent subnetworks operating parallelly. In this paper, we study the energy-efficient clustered cell-free networking problem with AP selection. Specifically, we propose a user-centric ratio-fixed AP-selection based clustering (UCR-ApSel) algorithm to form subnetworks dynamically. Following this, we analyze the average energy efficiency achieved with the proposed UCR-ApSel scheme theoretically and derive an effective closed-form upper-bound. Based on the analytical upper-bound expression, the optimal AP-selection ratio that maximizes the average energy efficiency is further derived as a simple explicit function of the total number of APs and the number of subnetworks. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the derived optimal AP-selection ratio and show that the proposed UCR-ApSel algorithm with the optimal AP-selection ratio achieves around 40% higher energy efficiency than the baselines. The analysis provides important insights to the design and optimization of future ultra-dense wireless communication systems. |
| title | Energy-Efficient Clustered Cell-Free Networking with Access Point Selection |
| topic | Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00339 |