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Adaptive Antenna Muting using RNN-based Traffic Load Prediction

재귀 신경망에 기반을 둔 트래픽 부하 예측을 이용한 적응적 안테나 뮤팅

  • Ahmadzai, Fazel Haq (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Institute of Marine Industry, Gyeongsang National University) ;
  • Lee, Woongsup (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Institute of Marine Industry, Gyeongsang National University)
  • Received : 2022.02.16
  • Accepted : 2022.03.01
  • Published : 2022.04.30
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Abstract

The reduction of energy consumption at the base station (BS) has become more important recently. In this paper, we consider the adaptive muting of the antennas based on the predicted future traffic load to reduce the energy consumption where the number of active antennas is adaptively adjusted according to the predicted future traffic load. Given that traffic load is sequential data, three different RNN structures, namely long-short term memory (LSTM), gated recurrent unit (GRU), and bidirectional LSTM (Bi-LSTM) are considered for the future traffic load prediction. Through the performance evaluation based on the actual traffic load collected from the Afghanistan telecom company, we confirm that the traffic load can be estimated accurately and the overall power consumption can also be reduced significantly using the antenna musing.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2021R1F1 A1046932).

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