Control-data separation architecture for cellular radio access networks: A survey and outlook

A Mohamed, O Onireti, MA Imran… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional cellular systems are designed to ensure ubiquitous coverage with an always
present wireless channel irrespective of the spatial and temporal demand of service. This …

Optimal design of energy-efficient multi-user MIMO systems: Is massive MIMO the answer?

E Björnson, L Sanguinetti, J Hoydis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Assume that a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is designed from
scratch to uniformly cover a given area with maximal energy efficiency (EE). What are the …

[HTML][HTML] Energy optimisation of hybrid off-grid system for remote telecommunication base station deployment in Malaysia

MH Alsharif, R Nordin, M Ismail - EURASIP Journal on Wireless …, 2015 - Springer
Cellular network operators are always seeking to increase the area of coverage of their
networks, open up new markets and provide services to potential customers in remote rural …

Power consumption of IoT access network technologies

C Gray, R Ayre, K Hinton… - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past couple of years, many commentators have hailed the “Internet of Things”(IoT)
as the next step in the evolution of the internet. This paper examines, from an energy …

How many small cells can be turned off via vertical offloading under a separation architecture?

S Zhang, J Gong, S Zhou, Z Niu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To further improve the energy efficiency of heterogeneous networks, a separation
architecture called hyper-cellular network (HCN) has been proposed, which decouples the …

Caching at the edge: A green perspective for 5G networks

B Perabathini, E Baştuğ, M Kountouris… - 2015 IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Endowed with context-awareness and proactive capabilities, caching users' content locally
at the edge of the network is able to cope with increasing data traffic demand in 5G wireless …

Energy-aware competitive power allocation for heterogeneous networks under QoS constraints

G Bacci, EV Belmega, P Mertikopoulos… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work proposes a distributed power allocation scheme for maximizing energy efficiency
in the uplink of OFDMA-based HetNets where a macro-tier is augmented with small cell …

Characterizing energy–delay tradeoff in hyper-cellular networks with base station sleeping control

Z Niu, X Guo, S Zhou, PR Kumar - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Base station (BS) sleeping operation is one of the effective ways to save energy
consumption of cellular networks, but it may lead to longer delay to the customers. The …

Resource allocation optimization in multi-user multi-cell massive MIMO networks considering pilot contamination

TM Nguyen, VN Ha, LB Le - Ieee access, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the joint pilot assignment and resource allocation for system energy
efficiency (SEE) maximization in the multi-user and multi-cell massive multi-input multi …

Joint Tx/Rx energy-efficient scheduling in multi-radio wireless networks: A divide-and-conquer approach

Q Wu, M Tao, W Chen - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most of the existing works on energy-efficient wireless communications only consider the
transmitter (Tx) or the receiver (Rx) side power consumption, but not both. Moreover, the …