Cellular networks are susceptible to being severely capacity-constrained during peak traffic
hours or at special events such as sports and concerts. Many other applications are …

Cellular networks have addressed the multi-fold increase in traffic demand through various
approaches from increasingly smaller cells to offloading demand to unlicensed spectrum …

We live in the digital era where the Internet has become an essential part of our daily lives.
With more than 750 million connected households and over 6.8 billion mobile subscribers …

Three factors make power supply one of the most urgent and challenging issues for the
future of mobile networks. First, the expected fast growth of mobile traffic raises doubts about …

The ever increasing mobile data traffic and dense deployment of wireless networks have
made energy efficient radio access imperative. As networks are designed to satisfy peak …

Residential broadband gateways (comprising modem, router, and Wi-Fi access point),
though individually consuming only 5-10 Watts of power, are significant contributors to …

Switching off base stations (BSs) is an effective and efficient energy-saving solution for
green cellular networks. The previous works focus mainly on when to switch off BSs without …

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 energy cost of cellular networks is ever increasing to match the surge of wireless data
traffic, and savings in this cost is important to reduce the operational expenditure of wireless …

This article introduces the ideas investigated in the BCG2 project of the GreenTouch
consortium. The basic concept is to separate signaling and data in the wireless access …