Energy-aware cooperative content distribution over wireless networks: Design alternatives and implementation aspects

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1736-1760

  Al Kanj, Lina ^a   Dawy, Zaher ^a   Yaacoub, Elias ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b QATAR MOBILITY INNOVATIONS CENTER QMIC   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Common Content Distribution; Energy Efficiency; Green Communications; Mobile to Mobile Cooperation; Multimedia Communications

Indexed keywords

CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIES; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; GREEN COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE-TO-MOBILE COOPERATIONS; MULTI HOP COMMUNICATION; MULTI-MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS;

BASE STATIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 84888352658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2012.121912.00052     Document Type: Article

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