Energy Efficiency and Spectral Efficiency Tradeoff in Interference-Limited Wireless Networks

Abstract

This letter investigates the fundamental tradeoff between energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE) for interference-limited wireless networks (IWNs), which is a nonconvex optimization and NP-hard problem. A general algorithm procedure (GAP) embedded with an iterative power allocation algorithm (IPAA) is proposed, which has good performance with the advantages of fast convergence, low complexity and insensitivity to initial values. Simulation results explicitly depict the EE-SE tradeoff curve for IWNs.