Abstract: In the research of green communication, considering the base station (BS) power allocation from the perspective of energy efficiency (EE) is meaningful for heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) optimization. The EE of two-tier HCNs was analyzed and a new method for the network EE optimization was proposed by adjusting the small BS transmitting power. First, the HCNs ware modeled by homogeneous Poisson point processes (PPPs), and the coverage probability of BSs in each tier was derived. Second, according to the definition of EE, and the closed-form of EE was given by deriving the total power consumption and total throughput of HCNs respectively. At last, the analytical performance of the EE of HCNs on the small BS transmission power was analyzed, and a small BS power optimization algorithm was proposed to maximize the EE. Simulation results show that, the transmission power of small BS has a significant impact on the EE of HCNs. Furthermore, by optimizing the transmission power of small BS, the EE of HCNs can be improved effectively.

Key words: heterogeneous cellular networks, EE, small BS, transmission power