Traffic-Aware Cloud RAN: A Key for Green 5G Networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1010-1021

  Saxena, Navrati ^a   Roy, Abhishek ^b   Kim, Hanseok ^b  

^a South Korea   (South Korea)

^b SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

5G wireless; C RAN; energy efficiency; game theory; Information theory; NP hard; traffic awareness; VBSC

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GAME THEORY; INFORMATION THEORY; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ENERGY OPTIMIZATION; GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS; INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACH; NP-HARD; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; TRAFFIC AWARENESS; VBSC;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84969940717     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2016.2549438     Document Type: Article

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