Modeling Energy-Delay Tradeoffs in Single Base Station with Cache

With the explosive increase of mobile data traffic, the energy efficiency issue in cellular networks is a growing concern. Recently, the advantages of in-network caching in Internet have been widely investigated, for example, speeding up content distribution and improving network resource utilizatio...

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Main Authors: Chao Fang, Haipeng Yao, Chenglin Zhao, Yunjie Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-10-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/401465
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Summary:With the explosive increase of mobile data traffic, the energy efficiency issue in cellular networks is a growing concern. Recently, the advantages of in-network caching in Internet have been widely investigated, for example, speeding up content distribution and improving network resource utilization. In this paper, we analyze the energy-delay tradeoff problem in the context of single base station (BS), which has a cache capacity to buffer the contents through it. Although additional power is consumed by the cache, work load of BS and network delay will be improved, which makes a tradeoff between network power consumption and delay. Simulation results reveal that, by introducing the cache in a BS, the network power and delay can be obviously reduced in different network conditions compared to the scenario without a cache. In addition, we find that a large cache size does not always mean a less network cost because of the more cache power consumption.
ISSN:1550-1477