An overview and classification of research approaches in green wireless networks

L Suarez, L Nuaymi, JM Bonnin - Eurasip journal on wireless …, 2012 - Springer
Energy consumption of wireless networks is now a very important research topic and several
research teams worldwide are proposing solutions for the so-called green wireless …

On the energy efficiency-spectral efficiency trade-off over the MIMO Rayleigh fading channel

F Héliot, MA Imran, R Tafazolli - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Along with spectral efficiency (SE), energy efficiency (EE) is becoming one of the key
performance evaluation criteria for communication system. These two criteria, which are …

Urban small cell deployments: Impact on the network energy consumption

R Razavi, H Claussen - 2012 IEEE wireless communications …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the effect of small cell deployments in urban and dense urban areas
from the energy consumption perspective. Considering a parametric power model for the …

Looking beyond green cellular networks

A Capone, AF dos Santos, I Filippini… - 2012 9th Annual …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a new network architecture for green cellular networks. The basic
concept is to separate signaling and data in the wireless access network. Transmitting the …

Rethinking cellular system architecture for breaking current energy efficiency limits

A Capone, I Filippini, B Gloss… - 2012 Sustainable Internet …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Base stations have been identified to be the most power consuming part in current mobile
networks. Since their power profile only depends to a small fraction on the actual traffic load …

Energy-efficient power allocation for pilots in training-based downlink OFDMA systems

Z Xu, GY Li, C Yang, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, power allocation between pilots and data symbols is investigated to maximize
energy efficiency (EE) for downlink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) …

On energy-delay tradeoff in base station sleep mode operation

Z Niu, J Zhang, X Guo, S Zhou - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Base station (BS) sleep mode operation is one of the effective ways to save energy, but it
may lead to longer delay to the customers. In order to evaluate the tradeoffs between energy …

Base-station duty-cycling and traffic buffering as a means to achieve green communications

R Gupta, EC Strinati - 2012 IEEE Vehicular Technology …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose the Base-Station (BS) Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) as the
means for saving energy. Traditional proposals utilize DTX at the BS to enable sleep modes …

High-capacity OFDMA femtocells by directional antennas and location awareness

AH Tsai, LC Wang, JH Huang… - IEEE Systems Journal, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a location-aware mechanism combined with a low-cost four-sector
switched-beam directional antenna to enhance the spectrum efficiency of orthogonal …

Coordinated multipoint power consumption modeling for energy efficiency assessment in LTE/LTE-advanced cellular networks

OT Eluwole, M Lohi - 2012 19th International Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chronological developments from first (1G) to state-of-the-art fourth generation (4G) cellular
networks have demonstrated remarkable exploits particularly in terms of peak data rate …