An Advanced 3-Mode Base Station Switching Technique for Energy Efficient Cellular Networks

In recent times, energy consumption is being considered as a critical issue in the mobile and cellular industry. This has led to the development of energy efficient techniques for cellular communications. With base station activity being the highest power consumer, base station sleeping has emerged as a major solution for reducing overall power consumption. Much of the existing work in this field is on a 2-state operation of base stations, wherein base stations are either active or in sleep mode.