Research Article

EE-eICIC: Energy-Efficient Optimization of Joint User Association and ABS for eICIC in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

Notation description Value

Tx power of Macros 36 dBm (4 W)
Tx power of Picos 30 dBm (1 W)
Broadcast signals power from Macro during ABS subframes 23 dBm (200 mW)
Thermal noise power −174 dBm/Hz
Path-loss exponent 3.25
frame 40
Bandwidth 10 MHz