A survey on green mobile networking: From the perspectives of network operators and mobile users

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1535-1556

  Ismail, Muhammad ^a,b   Zhuang, Weihua ^b   Serpedin, Erchin ^c   Qaraqe, Khalid ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; green communications; power consumption modeling; resource on off switching; scheduling techniques; traffic modeling

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ENERGY-EFFICIENT TECHNIQUES; GREEN COMMUNICATIONS; POWER CONSUMPTION MODEL; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES; SOURCES OF ENERGY; TRAFFIC MODEL; WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84940107083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2367592     Document Type: Article

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