Dramatic data traffic growth, especially in wireless data, is driving a significant surge in
energy consumption in the last mile access of the telecommunications infrastructure. The …

This article investigates a heterogeneous network (HetNet) consisting of an overlapped
coverage of radio frequency (RF) and optical wireless communication (OWC) to support …

With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the load caused by network
demands has been increasing. This has direct consequences in terms of increased network …

The Internet explosion makes energy consumption of the ICT sector a global concern.
Nowadays, the power consumption of access networks increases rapidly due to the rollout of …

Densely-deployed heterogeneous networks (HetNets) with large number of small cell base
stations (SBSs) will constitute one of the main pillars of emerging 5G wireless systems …

With tremendous attention for green communications, base station (BS) which is powered by
both the power grid and renewable energy sources, is regarded as a promising paradigm to …

With the tremendous growth of traffic demand caused by the conventional service and
emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, it is vitally challenging to support seamlessly …

Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging networking paradigm that enhances smart device
communications through Internet-enabled systems. Due to massive IoT devices connectivity …

One of the main approaches for improving the network energy efficiency (EE) is through the
introduction of load adaptive techniques, where the network's components/subsystems are …

To obtain good network performance in Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A)
heterogeneous networks (HetNets), enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (eICIC) …