Possibility of Applying Green Communication in Palestinian Cellular Networks

Abstract

Energy efficient networks are becoming a hot research field. The networking community is increasingly devoting its attention to the identification of approaches to save energy in the networks of today. However, the networks of tomorrow will require built-in energy efficiency capabilities; so that the new network designs should take into account the energy efficiency issue. Green Communication is one of the newest ideas in the communication fields. It includes any techniques that reduce energy consumption in communication devices. The ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) is responsible for approximately 2% to 10% from the total power consumption in the world where the cellular communications is the largest consumer. One of these techniques to obtain energy efficiency is based on the activation of network resources on demand, thus avoiding power on all the resources that are designed to serve users during peak traffic periods. This project tries to characterize the amount of energy that can be saved by reducing the number of active cells during low traffic periods. When some cells are switched off, radio coverage and service provisioning handled by other active cells, so as to guarantee that service is available over the whole area. In addition, we will check the possibility of applying this idea through a real case study of the existing networks in Palestine {JAWWAL & WATANIYA}. In our project, we consider three cases which are one operator network, two operators networks. Our results have shown a remarkable energy savings, up to 33.3% from the total power consumption.