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Until recently, link adaptation and resource allocation for communication system relied extensively on the spectral efficiency as an optimization criterion. With the emergence of the energy efficiency (EE) as a key system design criterion, resource allocation based on EE is becoming of great interest. In this paper, we propose an optimal EE-based resource allocation method for the scalar broadcast...
Optimizing energy efficiency (EE) for the MIMO broadcasting channels (BC) is considered in this paper, where a practical power model is taken into account. Although the EE of the MIMO BC is non-concave, we reformulate it as a quasiconcave function based on the uplink-downlink duality. After that, an energy efficient iterative waterfilling scheme is proposed based on the block-coordinate ascent algorithm...
In this paper, we propose a new definition of energy efficiency with respect to a given target packet error rate (PER). It is shown that some previous reported definitions are actually special cases of our definition. Consequently we use the definition to analyze the energy efficiency of Multilevel quadrature amplitude modulation (MQAM) and find that for a specific transmission there exists an energy...
Given the growing concern over energy consumption and associated global warming, green communication is becoming more and more important. Lots of efforts have been put into investigating energy efficiency based design in wireless systems. Unfortunately, the maximum energy efficiency of a point-to-point link is normally achieved when the transmit power approaches zero, which, however, is not desirable...
The objective of improving energy efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a primary design requirement given the limited energy available in the battery powered sensor nodes. In this paper, a battery aware distributed clustering and routing protocol is proposed for the maximization of the network lifetime. The proposed protocol incorporates the state of the battery's remaining charge and...
Short preamble MAC protocols such as X-MAC use a series of consecutive short preamble packets with pauses between them, which refer to as a strobed preamble. Target receiver can send an ACK packet during those pauses to stop the preamble transmission. Hence, the average length of transmitted preamble is reduced in this way, higher energy efficiency and lower latency are achieved accordingly. But with...
Video sensor networks (VSNs) offer an alternative to several existing surveillance technologies. However, unlike in conventional sensor network, video processing and transmission requires large amount of resources both in signal processing, i.e., encoding, and transmission of the encoded data. For such networks, an optimal encoding power and rate allocation method based on a power-rate-distortion...
A principal issue for wireless sensor networks is energy efficiency, which is necessary for prolonging applications to track continuous object, such as wild fire and poison gas. Selective wakeup approach is an effective way to save energy in such networks. However, most previous studies on selective wakeup schemes have concentrated on individual objects, such as intruders and tanks, and they cannot...
Mobile telecommunication operators are now focussing on emerging markets due to the current highly competitive mobile telecommunication sector in established markets. The deployment of wireless mobile infrastructure in these emerging markets or a green field scenario requires an innovative energy efficient approach, which is not feasible in an incumbent operator scenario. This paper describes a combined...
The traffic demand in future mobile cellular networks is expected to increase exponentially which would lead to dense base station deployment and eventually higher energy consumption. The current dominant mobile systems including GSM and UMTS were not designed with focus on energy efficiency. This paper investigates the energy saving potential of pico nodes in a heterogeneous network from an incumbent...
As wireless communications experience tremendous growth, energy consumption is becoming a crucial problem in the wireless industry. Energy saving mechanisms are important for supporting the mobility and extending the battery life of a user equipment, reducing the operation costs of a network operator, enhancing corporate image of operators and vendors alike, and providing a lower total energy consumption...
In this paper, by exploiting the availability of multiple cellular radio access networks (RANs), we propose a novel two-level cooperative access network framework for superior energy efficiency. Geographically co-located RANs mutually cooperate each other through the combined use of base transceiver station (BTS) level intranetwork cooperation and RAN level internetwork cooperation. By jointly applying...
Multi-hop relaying helps to improve the connectivity in wireless networks at the price of additional signaling overhead. In this paper, an ultra-low power wake-up radio is proposed to minimize signaling overhead and to build up energy-aware relaying route for low power applications. Protocol details are explained and energy consumption model is analyzed. The proposed scheme is compared with main radio...
In IEEE 802.16 e/m mobile broadband wireless systems, mobile subscriber stations (MSSs) are encouraged to enter the sleep mode for energy saving when end users do not have downstream or upstream traffic. To avoid service disruption of an MSS which stays in the sleep mode, IEEE 802.16 e/m specifies a two-way handshake protocol between the base station (BS) and an MSS. After performing the handshake...
Current 3GPP specifications for LTE include the use of MIMO as a key technology. MIMO can be seen from two different perspectives: if increased data rates are targeted, for a given value of SNR, one gets improved data transmission; however, from an energy efficiency viewpoint, lower values of SNR are needed for the same reference data rate, therefore, allowing the reduction of the transmitted power,...
With the explosion of wireless communications in number of users and data rates, the reduction of network power consumption becomes more and more critical. This is especially true for base stations which represent a dominant share of the total power in cellular networks. In order to study power reduction techniques, a convenient power model is required, providing estimates of the power consumption...
Cellular networks are currently facing significant challenges as mobile Internet access adoption continues to grow over the subscriber base. The challenge that network operators are facing is that Internet data traffic consumes considerably more resources than voice calls, necessitating in that respect significant capacity enhancements. Further, this rise in system utilization has caused a considerable...
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