Performance analysis of discontinuous reception mechanism with web traffic in LTE networks

The long term evolution (LTE) networks provide high data rate access to support multi-media services at the expense of more power consumption in user equipment (UE). Discontinuous reception (DRX) mechanism is one of the promising technologies for energy saving in LTE networks, which extends UE battery lifetime effectively. The DRX parameters configuration should make a compromise between power saving and wake-up delay, which can be achieved by the DRX parameters configuration according to different traffic types with specific quality of service (QoS) requirement. In this paper, we model the DRX mechanism with web traffic using a semi-Markov process. Based on the proposed model, the performance of power saving and wake-up delay with various DRX parameters is analysed, which provides insight on effects of the DRX parameters on the power saving and wake-up delay performance. The analytical results are verified by the simulation, which shows that LTE DRX achieves much power saving gains at the cost of tolerable delay.