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To reduce power consumption of smart phones, this work proposes a traffic regulation scheme for DRX-based LTE/LTE-A networks to support video-on-demand (VoD) services. To implement the time slicing at the base station for reducing power consumption of smart phones, a regulation buffer is allocated at the base station. All incoming packets for individual user equipments (UEs) are temporarily buffered...
This paper proposes a capacity improving and energy saving scheduling scheme in push-based Converged Wireless Broadcasting and Cellular Network (CWBCN). We maximize the network capacity and alleviate request congestion through broadcasting/multi-casting the most popular services, and locally caching for further request on the user side. In the proposed scheme, we firstly introduce a UE (User Equipment)-based...
A novel class-AB Flipped Voltage Follower is proposed, suitable for low-voltage low-power CMOS implementation in advanced technology nodes. Simulations have been performed using STMicroelectronics models for the 45nm technology. The Flipped Voltage Follower allows low output impedance and high linearity by means of a feedback loop. However, like the conventional common-drain voltage follower, it has...
Software-defined networks have been proposed as a viable solution to decrease the power consumption of the networking component in data center networks. Still the question remains on which scheduling algorithms are most suited to achieve this goal. We propose 4 different linear programming approaches that schedule requested traffic flows on SDN switches according to different objectives. Depending...
A high power efficient and scalable noise-shaping SAR ADC was fabricated in 28 nm CMOS process. By integrating residue of 12 bit SAR AD conversion with 3rd order integrator, Σ modulation is achieved and noise floor of AD conversion is shaped. 97.99 dB SNDR and 111.8 dB SFDR for 2 kHz bandwidth with only 37.1 µW power consumption is measured. By increasing sampling frequency, the performance of the...
Spectrum scarcity together with high capacity demands make the use of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies an interesting alternative for next generation, i.e., fifth generation (5G), networks. Although mmWave is expected to play a key role for both access network and backhaul (BH), its initial use in the BH network seems more straight-forward. This stems from the fact that, in the BH case, its deployment...
This paper presents a new low power Current Conveyor II (CCII). The proposed circuit uses a 0.4 V single-ended supply. The advantages of the proposed current mode readout circuit are threefold. Firstly, the proposed circuit provides extremely low power consumption while operating all MOSFETs in the subthreshold region providing the highest energy efficiency. Secondly, Self cascode technique is used...
Dense and heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are being deployed to provide better coverage and throughput, thus improving the quality of experience at mobile users. Besides the important implications for energy consumption, the trend towards densification calls for more and more wireless links to forward a massive backhaul traffic into the core network. It is critically important to take into account...
Optimal utilization of power is a major concern for HPC, and is one of the focus points on the path towards exascale and approaches range from chip level to facility wide solutions. In order to evaluate the implications of these approaches and their impact on future system design, we need to understand their interaction with applications as well as their performance impact. In this work we describe...
A 800-Mb/s optical receiver based on pulse-position-modulation (PPM) scheme is presented. The proposed PPM receiver can recover the clock without any help of a reference clock or a forwarded clock. As a result, the number of wire and pin count is minimized. Moreover, the proposed receiver employs optical front-en d circuits for fiber-optic communications which is optimized for low-power operation...
A 0.9 V feed forward, op-amp shared MASH structure delta sigma modulator for low power sensor interface applications in 0.18 μm CMOS process is presented in this paper. A modified feed forward op-amp shared structure is implemented to reduce the integrators output swings. Due to opamp sharing, the power hungry adder, which constitutes a first challenge in conventional feed forward structures when...
In this paper we present a balun low noise amplifier (LNA) in which the noise figure (NF) and power consumption are reduced by using a feedback biasing structure. The circuit is based on a conventional wideband balun LNA with noise cancellation. We propose to replace the typical current source of the CG stage by a transistor that establishes a feedback loop in that stage. This adds a degree of freedom...
Coverage enhancement and low complexity are quite important aspects to support and broaden the application of machine type communication (MTC) in long term evolution (LTE). Repeating the same data across multiple subframes is widely considered as basic solution to improve the coverage. Low complexity target is mainly achieved by reducing the supported bandwidth and restricting the data processing...
This paper describes the implementation of a continuous-time Delta-Sigma modulator for wireless, instrumentation and measurement applications. The Delta-Sigma modulator employs Gm-C based integrator to form a 4th-order noise-shaping loop. The modulator can achieve 70.7dB of SNDR in 2MHz bandwidth with an oversampling ratio of 40 and single-bit quantization. The modulator is designed in TSMC 0.25μm...
The increasing demand for high bandwidth in cellular wireless networks led to a dramatic increase in the number of deployed LTE femtocell base stations (FBS) in recent years. While the energy consumed by a single FBS is relatively negligible, the collective energy footprint of all FBSs deployed by an operator turns out to be huge. Energy-efficient protocols are needed thus to balance the trade-off...
Greening information and communications technology is becoming an environmental and economic sine qua non, and has attracted much research attention. For a cellular network, the base stations (BSs) cost more than 50% of the energy consumption of the whole network. Therefore, BSs can be powered by green energy to reduce its on-grid power consumption. In this paper, we propose a greeN Energy Aware user...
In high-speed serial communication interface circuits, a high-performance slicer is essential. This paper presents an improved slicer based on SA/FF (Sense Amplifier/Flip Flop) and extracts the sample function of whole circuit system. The results show that the proposed configuration can achieve a regeneration gain of 61.8dB and a −3dB bandwidth of 10GHz. The power consumption of the new structure...
The charge-steering concept is applied to opamps as a means of conserving power. The opamp is the heart of the sigma-delta modulator circuit and the part in which the major portion of the power consumption is dissipated. This work presents a dual mode sigma-delta modulator for two wireless standards, GSM and Bluetooth. It achieves dual-mode operation with the same sampling frequency, while the capacitor...
Various Ultra-Low-Power (ULP) RX architectures [1–4] for Bluetooth™ Low Energy (BLE) have been developed for minimizing the RX power consumption. A PLL-based RX architecture [1] is very attractive to improve the energy efficiency. While the single-channel configuration without multi-bit ADC realizes under 3mW power consumption and over −90dBm sensitivity, the 2nd and 3rd Adjacent Channel Interference...
Wearable head-mounted display (HMD) smart devices are emerging as a smartphone substitute due to their ease of use and suitability for advanced applications, such as gaming and augmented reality (AR) [1–2]. Most current HMD systems suffer from: 1) a lack of rich user interfaces, 2) short battery life, and 3) heavy weight. Although current HMDs (e.g. Google Glass) use a touch panel and voice commands...
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