Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

<p dir="ltr">Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular NetworksThe future Heterogeneous Cellular Network (HCN) is expected to fulfill the demand for the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, extended reality, connected vehicles a...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Abdul Qadeer Khan (22502168) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Kamran Javed (21726248) (author), Ali Raza (3558965) (author), Shahryar Saleem (22502171) (author), Zubair Saeed (19325647) (author)
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Communications engineering
Information and computing sciences
Machine learning
Heterogeneous cellular network
cell association
load balancing
energy efficiency
deep Q-learning
UE battery
Load management
Batteries
Base stations
Interference
Cellular networks
Uplink
Load modeling
Signal to noise ratio
Throughput
Optimization
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description <p dir="ltr">Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular NetworksThe future Heterogeneous Cellular Network (HCN) is expected to fulfill the demand for the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, extended reality, connected vehicles and mobile gadgets. In HCN, the deployment of low power nodes inside the coverage area of a high power node yields the benefit of providing improved data rates to users by offloading a portion of users from a highly loaded high power node to relatively lightly loaded low power nodes. However, the offloading of users through conventional cell association schemes may not guarantee improved load balancing along with the energy efficiency (EE) of critical users such as user equipment (UE) with low battery power. This paper proposes improved cell association schemes based on the battery levels of UE and Deep Q-learning (DQL) to achieve load balancing and to decrease the power consumption of Low Battery Users (LBUs). The proposed approach combines UE battery levels with three conventional association schemes for improvement: minimum distance based cell association, maximum biased received power (MBRP), and maximum biased SINR (MBSINR). Results on cell association, load balancing, and EE of LBUs have been compared with conventional association schemes. The proposed battery based cell association models perform well in favor of LBUs and clearly show the significance of the proposed approach.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IEEE Access<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2025.3568343" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2025.3568343</a></p>
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spelling Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular NetworksAbdul Qadeer Khan (22502168)Kamran Javed (21726248)Ali Raza (3558965)Shahryar Saleem (22502171)Zubair Saeed (19325647)EngineeringCommunications engineeringInformation and computing sciencesMachine learningHeterogeneous cellular networkcell associationload balancingenergy efficiencydeep Q-learningUE batteryLoad managementBatteriesBase stationsInterferenceCellular networksUplinkLoad modelingSignal to noise ratioThroughputOptimization<p dir="ltr">Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular NetworksThe future Heterogeneous Cellular Network (HCN) is expected to fulfill the demand for the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, extended reality, connected vehicles and mobile gadgets. In HCN, the deployment of low power nodes inside the coverage area of a high power node yields the benefit of providing improved data rates to users by offloading a portion of users from a highly loaded high power node to relatively lightly loaded low power nodes. However, the offloading of users through conventional cell association schemes may not guarantee improved load balancing along with the energy efficiency (EE) of critical users such as user equipment (UE) with low battery power. This paper proposes improved cell association schemes based on the battery levels of UE and Deep Q-learning (DQL) to achieve load balancing and to decrease the power consumption of Low Battery Users (LBUs). The proposed approach combines UE battery levels with three conventional association schemes for improvement: minimum distance based cell association, maximum biased received power (MBRP), and maximum biased SINR (MBSINR). Results on cell association, load balancing, and EE of LBUs have been compared with conventional association schemes. The proposed battery based cell association models perform well in favor of LBUs and clearly show the significance of the proposed approach.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IEEE Access<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2025.3568343" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2025.3568343</a></p>2025-05-16T12:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.1109/access.2025.3568343https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Energy-Efficient_Cell_Association_and_Load_Balancing_for_Low_Battery_Users_in_Heterogeneous_Cellular_Networks/30454562CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/304545622025-05-16T12:00:00Z
spellingShingle Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
Abdul Qadeer Khan (22502168)
Engineering
Communications engineering
Information and computing sciences
Machine learning
Heterogeneous cellular network
cell association
load balancing
energy efficiency
deep Q-learning
UE battery
Load management
Batteries
Base stations
Interference
Cellular networks
Uplink
Load modeling
Signal to noise ratio
Throughput
Optimization
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title Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
title_full Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
title_fullStr Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
title_full_unstemmed Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
title_short Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
title_sort Energy-Efficient Cell Association and Load Balancing for Low Battery Users in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
topic Engineering
Communications engineering
Information and computing sciences
Machine learning
Heterogeneous cellular network
cell association
load balancing
energy efficiency
deep Q-learning
UE battery
Load management
Batteries
Base stations
Interference
Cellular networks
Uplink
Load modeling
Signal to noise ratio
Throughput
Optimization