Energy efficient radio resource management in a coordinated multi-cell distributed antenna system

As well as the demand for higher data rates goes on, the rising energy costs and environmental concerns have also led researchers to increase energy efficiency in terms of bits-per-Joule. Cooperative communications with low power nodes, switching off under-utilized cells due to low traffic load and energy efficient radio resource management are some of the energy saving methods. It is observed that the conventional energy efficiency expression, which is defined as the ratio of the data rate to the total transmission power, can limit the system throughput significantly. In this paper, we introduce a novel energy efficiency expression which provides a trade-off between sum-rate maximization and total transmission power minimization in the network. A coordinated multi-cell distribut