Abstract—Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are being
adopted as the main alternative for reducing the energy
consumption in wireless network. This adoption forces the
backhaul architectures expansion, and consequently it increases
the overall network energy consumption. In the last years,
copper technology has been disregarded to backhaul indoor
small cells. However, lately the copper-based technology turned
out as an effective option due to the femtocell technology based
on wireless over cable (FemtoWoC). In this paper , it was
assessed two backhaul architectures , using copper in the last
mile, to connect FemtoWoC in the network. It was also
evaluated the energy-effiency achieved compared to the results
in scenarios using conventional femtocells.
Index Terms—Energy efficiency, mobile backhaul, small
cells.
Albert Richard Moraes Lopes is with the Laboratory of Applied
Electromagnetics, Federal University of Pará, Brazil (e-mail:
albert.richard@gmail.com).
Fabrício S. Farias is with the Laboratory of Applied Electromagnetics in
Federal University of Pará. He is also with UFPA Campus Cametá, Brazil
(e-mail: fabriciosf@ufpa.br).
João Crisóstomo Weyl Albuquerque Costa is with Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Federal University of Pará, Brazil (e-mail:
jweyl@ufpa.br).
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Cite: Albert Richard Moraes Lopes, Fabrício S. Farias, and João Crisóstomo Weyl Albuquerque Costa, "An Energy Efficiency Assessment for Indoor Small Cells Using Copper-Based Backhaul," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 170-174, 2015.
