The advancements in smart power grid and the advocation of “green communications” have
inspired the wireless communication networks to harness energy from ambient …

Internet of Things (IoT) envisions an intelligent infrastructure of networked smart devices
offering task-specific monitoring and control services. The unique features of IoT include …

Energy storage units hold promise to transform the electric power industry, since they can
supply power to end customers during peak demand times, and operate as customers upon …

Edge infrastructures, including edge computing servers, are increasingly powered by
renewable energy and smart grid combined. Two-way energy trading allows the surplus or …

This paper proposes a new fully decentralized approach to online placement and
optimization of virtual machines (VMs) for network functions virtualization (NFV). The …

Decentralized orchestration of the control plane is critical to the scalability and reliability of
software-defined network (SDN). However, existing orchestrations of SDN are either one-off …

Future 5G cellular networks, equipped with energy harvesting devices, are uniquely
positioned to interoperate with smart grid, due to their resemblance in scale and ubiquity …

With the emergence of small cell networks and fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, the
backhaul becomes increasingly complex. This study addresses the problem of how a central …

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) can cost-efficiently provide network services by
running different virtual network functions (VNFs) at different virtual machines (VMs) in a …

User scheduling, beamforming and energy coordination are investigated in smart-grid
powered cellular networks (SGPCNs), where the base stations are powered by a smart grid …