Joint User Association and Base Station Sleeping Scheme for Uplink Fully-Decoupled RAN

The increasingly severe energy consumption caused by exploding wireless demands attracts considerable research. Remarkably, base station (BS) sleeping is a promising technique to enable the green network. A disruptive and original fullydecoupled radio access network (FD-RAN) architecture aiming at the next-generation mobile communication networks is developed, which removes the obstacles to achieving BS sleeping, i.e. deficient cooperation between BSs, coupled data-control transmission and coupled uplink-downlink transmission. In this paper, we investigate the joint user association and uplink BS sleeping considering power control in the FD-RAN with the superiority of fully decoupled architectures. Specifically, we propose an energy consumption model for the uplink FD-RAN and tackle the mixed-integer second-order cone problem to minimize the whole network energy consumption by leveraging the many-tomany swap matching theory. Extensive simulation results validate a higher energy efficiency of the uplink FD-RAN compared to the traditional cellular network and cell-free networks and demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm.