Greening wireless communications: Status and future directions

Computer Communications

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1651-1661

  Serrano, Pablo ^a   De La Oliva, Antonio ^a   Patras, Paul ^b   Mancuso, Vincenzo ^a,c   Banchs, Albert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c IMDEA NETWORKS INSTITUTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Power consumption; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

BATTERY POWERED DEVICES; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; COST PERFORMANCE; DESIGN GOAL; ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY EFFICIENT OPERATIONS; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; PERFORMANCE GAIN; POSSIBLE FUTURES; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; TIME-SCALES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS DEVICES; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84864765164     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2012.06.011     Document Type: Article

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