Energy saving through a learning framework in greener cellular radio access networks

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1556-1561

  Li, Rongpeng ^a   Zhao, Zhifeng ^a   Chen, Xianfu ^a,b   Zhang, Honggang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

CELLULAR RADIOS; ENERGY SAVINGS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS; ENERGY-SAVINGS; LEARNING FRAMEWORKS; LOAD VARIATIONS; MATCHINGS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; SWITCHING OPERATIONS; TRAFFIC LOADS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 84877652501     PISSN: 23340983     EISSN: 25766813     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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