Energy-efficient baseband unit placement in a fixed/mobile converged WDM aggregation network

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1542-1551

  Carapellese, Nicola ^a   Tornatore, Massimo ^a   Pattavina, Achille ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Access; Aggregation; BBU hotelling; Energy efficiency; Fixed mobile convergence; Fronthaul; Power consumption; WDM

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ACCESS; AGGREGATION NETWORK; BASE BANDS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FIXED/MOBILE CONVERGENCE; FRONTHAUL; HOTELLING;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 84907455257     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2014.2335071     Document Type: Article

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