A base station comprising: • a transceiver for multi-carrier radio transmission within a radio frequency band, the transceiver being adapted to receive service quality requests of a plurality of user terminals, each requesting service from the base station, wherein each service quality request comprises a battery status of the corresponding user terminal; and • a radio resource controller being adapted to: ∘ receive the service quality requests from the transceiver and ∘ for each user terminal of the plurality of user terminals, allocate at least one subcarrier of the multi-carrier radio transmission to the user terminal and, ∘ for each user terminal of the plurality of the user terminals, after allocating the at least one subcarrier to the user terminal, configure the at least one subcarrier in the radio frequency band according to the corresponding battery status of the user terminal comprised in the corresponding service quality request of said user terminal, wherein the configuring the at least one subcarrier comprises at least one of the following: ▪ selecting the pulse shape used for pulse forming to perform the multi-carrier radio transmission on the at least one subcarrier, ▪ selecting a cyclic prefix, CP, to be used in the multi-carrier radio transmission, and ▪ selecting a transmission mode used for the multi-carrier radio transmission for the user terminal. • a transceiver for multi-carrier radio transmission within a radio frequency band, the transceiver being adapted to receive service quality requests of a plurality of user terminals, each requesting service from the base station, wherein each service quality request comprises a battery status of the corresponding user terminal; and • a radio resource controller being adapted to: ∘ receive the service quality requests from the transceiver and ∘ for each user terminal of the plurality of user terminals, allocate at least one subcarrier of the multi-carrier radio transmission to the user terminal and, ∘ for each user terminal of the plurality of the user terminals, after allocating the at least one subcarrier to the user terminal, configure the at least one subcarrier in the radio frequency band according to the corresponding battery status of the user terminal comprised in the corresponding service quality request of said user terminal, wherein the configuring the at least one subcarrier comprises at least one of the following: ▪ selecting the pulse shape used for pulse forming to perform the multi-carrier radio transmission on the at least one subcarrier, ▪ selecting a cyclic prefix, CP, to be used in the multi-carrier radio transmission, and ▪ selecting a transmission mode used for the multi-carrier radio transmission for the user terminal. ∘ receive the service quality requests from the transceiver and ∘ for each user terminal of the plurality of user terminals, allocate at least one subcarrier of the multi-carrier radio transmission to the user terminal and, ∘ for each user terminal of the plurality of the user terminals, after allocating the at least one subcarrier to the user terminal, configure the at least one subcarrier in the radio frequency band according to the corresponding battery status of the user terminal comprised in the corresponding service quality request of said user terminal, wherein the configuring the at least one subcarrier comprises at least one of the following: ▪ selecting the pulse shape used for pulse forming to perform the multi-carrier radio transmission on the at least one subcarrier, ▪ selecting a cyclic prefix, CP, to be used in the multi-carrier radio transmission, and ▪ selecting a transmission mode used for the multi-carrier radio transmission for the user terminal. ▪ selecting the pulse shape used for pulse forming to perform the multi-carrier radio transmission on the at least one subcarrier, ▪ selecting a cyclic prefix, CP, to be used in the multi-carrier radio transmission, and ▪ selecting a transmission mode used for the multi-carrier radio transmission for the user terminal.