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ABSTRACT
To reduce the energy consumption and prolong the battery lifetimes of mobile terminals, the design of energy-efficient association scheme is necessary and meaningful. To this end, we design a type of association mechanism (scheme) to maximize the whole energy efficiency (WEE) for uplink code-division-multiple-access (CDMA)-based heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs), and formulate it as a WEE maximization problem with users’ SINR (signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio) constraints. Considering that the finally formulated problem is in a fractional mixed-integer form and hard to tackle, we introduce an energy efficiency (EE) parameter to convert it into a parametric subtractive form. At last, we design two two-layer iterative algorithms for the formulated problem, whose primary difference lies in the treatment of SINR constraints. In general, the outer loop utilizes a bisection method to search the optimal EE parameter, and the inner loop alternately optimizes the association index and transmit power. At last, we give the corresponding convergence analyses for some subalgorithms, and also give some detailed complexity analyses for the whole algorithm. In the simulation, we introduce an existing energy-efficient association mechanism for comparison, and finally investigate the impacts of different network parameters on the association performance.
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