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Then, we derive the expression of downlink spectral efficiency (SE), taking interference into account. Subsequently, we establish the EE optimization function, which is defined as the average capacity divided by power consumption. In an interference-limited scenario, the EE optimization is of high complexity to solve globally as it is not jointly concave. To this end, we propose the Dinkelbach-like power allocation algorithm to obtain a suboptimal solution. We transform the EE problem in a fractional form into a subtractive optimization form called an auxiliary subproblem. Then, we relax the sub-problem to a concave problem by initializing the interference and omitting the dynamic power term about throughput. Lastly, we solve iteratively the Karush\u2013Kuhn\u2013Tucker (KKT) conditions by bisection search. Consequently, we obtain a sub-solution with modest complexity. The simulation results justify the rationality of the Dinkelbach-like algorithm and demonstrate that the proposal outperforms the reference schemes and effectively improves the performance metrics EE and SE.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym14061145","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,1]],"date-time":"2022-06-01T21:43:42Z","timestamp":1654119822000},"page":"1145","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Energy Efficiency Optimization Based on Power Allocation in Massive MIMO Downlink Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Hongmei","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China"}]},{"given":"Honggui","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China"}]},{"given":"Yougen","family":"Yi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4239-3749","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zaoxing","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China"}]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China"},{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Changsha Normal University, Changsha 410100, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4336-5902","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jie","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"18","DOI":"10.1109\/MVT.2019.2921398","article-title":"6G Technologies: Key Drivers, Core Requirements, System Architectures, and Enabling Technologies","volume":"14","author":"Zong","year":"2019","journal-title":"IEEE Veh. 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