Municipalities can form a driving force behind the deployment of new telecom infrastructure.
While a telecom operator focuses on direct (financial) profits, a municipality is mainly …

Explosive mobile data demands are driving a significant growth in energy consumption in
mobile networks, and consequently a surge of carbon footprints. Reducing carbon footprints …

In this paper, we propose an optimal energy management strategy that minimises the
energy bill incurred by cellular base stations (CBSs) in a smart grid environment. The CBS …

Currently environment protection is a big challenge. One way of protection is focusing on
power saving of electrical devices. Although computers and networks are not the main air …

This paper focuses on techniques or actions that the network operator should consider for
the mobile network's evolution towards 5G from a sustainability point of view. To this end, the …

Several initiates have been taken promoting clean energy and the use of local flexibility
towards a more sustainable and green economy. From a residential point of view, flexibility …

Simultaneous operation of multiple network interfaces can benefit mobile devices with
diverse network interfaces. This paper outlines an IP-level network activation strategy that …

Global mobile data traffic consumption and usage continues to increase rapidly leading to
congested networks. Currently, cellular networks are overloaded with mobile data traffic due …

The energy consumption of mobile networks is already substantial nowadays, and only
expected to further increase with the roll-out of 5G. Base stations are the key elements in this …

The introduction of fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks leads to an increase in energy
consumption and higher operational costs for mobile network operators (MNOs) …