Stochastic predictive control for energy-efficient cooperative wireless cellular networks

Energy efficiency has become an increasingly important aspect of wireless communications. Coordinated multipoint (CoMP) processing may be considered as a promising approach to improve the energy efficiency, extend the cell coverage, and increase the communication capacity in wireless cellular networks. However, the CoMP communication systems may require a large amount of channel state information (CSI) feedbacks which would be constrained by the wireless backhaul networks. This paper proposes a control theoretical approach to improve the energy efficiency in cooperative wireless cellular networks with CoMP communications. In particular, we propose a stochastic predictive control algorithm to achieve energy-efficient CoMP transmissions through optimal base station grouping. Moreover, since the channel state information in CoMP is often outdated/lost due to the feedback delays in the backhaul network, our proposed approach is based on a new discrete time predictive function control model to mitigate the impacts of packet delay or loss of channel state information. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.