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 …

Dynamic resource provisioning for energy efficiency in wireless access networks: A survey and an outlook

Ł Budzisz, F Ganji, G Rizzo, MA Marsan… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditionally, energy efficiency aspects have been included in the wireless access network
design space only in the context of power control aimed at interference mitigation and for the …

A cell outage management framework for dense heterogeneous networks

O Onireti, A Zoha, J Moysen, A Imran… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel cell outage management (COM) framework for
heterogeneous networks with split control and data planes-a candidate architecture for …

Enabling green cellular networks: A survey and outlook

A De Domenico, EC Strinati, A Capone - Computer Communications, 2014 - Elsevier
In last couple of decades, cellular networks have revolutionized the way users access
communication networks but they required a huge effort to operators for the development of …

Energy efficient hybrid satellite terrestrial 5G networks with software defined features

J Zhang, X Zhang, MA Imran, B Evans… - Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to improve the manageability and adaptability of future 5G wireless networks, the
software orchestration mechanism, named software defined networking (SDN) with control …

Dual connectivity in LTE HetNets with split control-and user-plane

A Zakrzewska, D López-Pérez… - 2013 IEEE …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, a new network architecture with split control-plane and user-plane has been
proposed and gained a lot of momentum in the standardisation of Long Term Evolution …

Energy-efficient and load-proportional eNodeB for 5G user-centric networks: A multilevel sleep strategy mechanism

H Pervaiz, O Onireti, A Mohamed… - IEEE Vehicular …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today, dense network deployment is being considered as one of the effective strategies to
meet the capacity and connectivity demands of the fifth-generation (5G) cellular system …

Future RAN architecture: SD-RAN through a general-purpose processing platform

Z Zaidi, V Friderikos, MA Imran - IEEE Vehicular Technology …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we identify and study the potential of an integrated deployment solution for
energy-efficient cellular networks combining the strengths of two very active current research …

Radio planning of energy-aware cellular networks

S Boiardi, A Capone, B Sansó - Computer Networks, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a joint planning and management optimization approach for cellular
networks to limit energy consumption while guaranteeing QoS and minimizing operators …

Planning for energy-aware wireless networks

S Boiardi, A Capone, B Sansò - IEEE Communications …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a fundamental modeling and optimization framework for the planning
of energy-aware wireless networks. The key idea is that in order to produce energy-efficient …