Gestion des ressources et de la consommation énergétique dans les réseaux mobiles hétérogènes. (Resources and energy consumption management in heterogeneous mobile networks)

The objective of this thesis is to develop methods for a targeted and efficient management of users mobility in heterogeneous mobile networks. This network is characterized by the deployment of different types of cells (macro, micro, pico and/or femto). The massive deployment of small cells (pico and femto) provides a supplementary coverage and capacity to mobile networks, specially in dense areas. However, the resulting real-time constraints limit the offered QoS. Furthermore, for commercial and/or environmental reasons, the needs to reduce the energy consumed by mobile networks became reality. Thus, mobile operators have to find a good compromise between, on the one hand, the users velocity and the guaranteed QoS, and on the other hand, the cost of deployment of such networks. For that, in the context of users mobility management, we propose models for resource and energy consumption management of base stations. The first model aims at controlling resource sharing between clients of the mobile operators. Based on a mobility prediction of users, this model anticipates the resource management of a base station. The second model aims at reducing energy consumption of the network by managing mobile users assignment to detected cells. This allows a continuous control of consumed energy of base stations while offered QoS is guaranteed. Based on simulation of a real mobile network topology, the performances of proposed models are evaluated while considering different possible scenarios. They are compared to the performances of different strategies as the ones proposed in literature or adopted by current mobile operators.