Title
Efficient resource allocation for energy conservation in uplink transmissions of IEEE 802.16j transparent relay networks
Abstract
By introducing the relay capability, the IEEE 802.16j standard is developed to improve the WiMAX performance. Under the transparent mode, existing studies aim at improving network throughput by increasing the transmission rates of mobile stations (MSs). However, we show that using higher rates will let MSs consume more energy. In the paper, we define an energy-conserved uplink resource allocation (EURA) problem in 802.16j networks under the transparent mode, which asks how to arrange the uplink resource to 1) satisfy MSs' requests and 2) minimize their energy consumption. Objective 1 is necessary while objective 2 should be achieved when objective 1 is met. The above bi-objective problem is especially important when the network is non-saturated. The EURA problem is NP-hard and we propose a heuristic with two key designs. First, we exploit relay stations to allow more concurrent uplink transmissions to fully use the frame space. Second, we reduce MSs' transmission powers by adjusting their rates and paths. Simulation results show that our heuristic can save up to 80% of MSs' energy as compared with existing work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1868521.1868552
MSWiM
Keywords
Field
DocType
efficient resource allocation,energy-conserved uplink resource allocation,energy consumption,eura problem,concurrent uplink transmission,transmission power,uplink resource,transmission rate,bi-objective problem,energy conservation,network throughput,transparent mode,wimax,satisfiability,resource allocation,mobile station
Energy conservation,Computer science,Computer network,WiMAX,Resource allocation,IEEE 802,Throughput,Energy consumption,Relay,Distributed computing,Telecommunications link
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.52
16
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jia-Ming Liang110413.26
You-Chiun Wang273045.45
Jen-Jee Chen320523.90
Jui-Hsiang Liu4242.94
Yu-Chee Tseng56603639.67