Bandwidth and Energy-Aware Resource Allocation for Cloud Radio Access Networks

Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is emerging as a transformative paradigmatic architecture for the next generation of cellular networks. In this paper, a novel resource allocation solution that optimizes the energy consumption of a C-RAN is proposed. First, an energy consumption model that characterizes the computation energy of the base band unit (BBU) pool is introduced based on the empirical results collected from a programmable C-RAN...