Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms and Applications

✍ Scribed by Jinsong Wu, Sundeep Rangan, Honggang Zhang

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 836
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nowadays energy crisis and global warming problems are hanging over everyone’s head, urging much research work on energy saving. In the ICT industry, which is becoming a major consumer of global energy triggered by the telecommunication network operators experiencing energy cost as a significant factor in profit calculations, researchers have started to investigate various approaches for power consumption reduction.

Standards bodies are already developing standards for energy-efficient protocols. However, research in green communications is still at an early stage, and the space of potential solutions is far from being fully explored. This book provides a comprehensive discussion of academic research and relevant applications in green communications. It aims to increase understanding of relevant issues and further the development of strategies and techniques.

Gathering efforts from world-leading experts on green topics with different focuses, such as mobile communications, wireless networks, ad hoc and sensor networks, cloud computing, optical networking, smart grids, network devices, even FPGA and terminal devices, combined with the best practices from the largest telecommunication operator, China Mobile Corporation, this book covers key features such as:

• Not only focuses on energy saving of ICT industry, but also figures out its role to help other industries reduce energy consumption
• Comprehensively covers almost all main aspects in green communications
• Includes recent advances in theoretical analysis, algorithms, and practical applications for green wired and wireless communications
• Readers do not have to be professionals in communications to understand the basic ideas in the book

This book brings green wired and wireless communications, as well as other general green topics, in one book, which will give readers a panoramic view in the relevant green fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms and Applications......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 22
Editor Biographies......Page 26
Part I: General Topics......Page 28
1. Runtime-Controlled Energy Reduction Techniques for FPGAs......Page 30
2. Smart Grid and ICT’s Role in Its Evolution......Page 56
3. Energy Saving Solutions and Practices of China Mobile......Page 78
4. Standard Methodologies for Energy Efficiency Assessment......Page 110
5. Reciprocal Learning for Energy-Efficient Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks......Page 130
6. Green Communications for Carbon Emission Reductions: Architectures and Standards......Page 152
7. The Role of ICT in the Evolution Towards Smart Grids......Page 176
8. Moving a Processing Element from Hot to Cool Spots: Is This an Efficient Method to Decrease Leakage Power Consumption in FPGAs?......Page 224
9. Cloud Computing - a Greener Future for IT......Page 248
10. Energy-Efficient Management of Campus PCs......Page 274
Part II: Focus on Wireless Communications......Page 304
11. C-RAN: A Green RAN Framework......Page 306
12. Green Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks......Page 332
13. Green Wireless Communications under Quality of Service Constraints......Page 348
14. On the Energy Efficiency-Spectral Efficiency Trade-off. in Cellular Systems......Page 380
15. Energy Savings for Mobile Communication Networks through Dynamic Spectrum and Traffic Load Management......Page 432
16. Toward Energy-Efficient Operation of Base Stations in Cellular Wireless Networks......Page 462
17. Green Wireless Access Networks......Page 502
18. Energy Efficient Communications in MIMO Wireless Channels......Page 546
19. Minimising Power Consumption to Achieve More Efficient Green Cellular Radio Base Station Designs......Page 582
20. Energy Conservation of Mobile Terminals in Multi-cell TDMA Networks......Page 606
21. Energy Efficiency for Wireless Relay Systems......Page 642
22. Holistic Approach to Green Wireless Communications Based on Multicarrier Technologies......Page 664
23. Green Video Streaming over Cellular Networks......Page 686
Part III: Focus on Wireline Communications......Page 718
24. Trading off. Energy and Forwarding Performance in Next-Generation Network Devices......Page 720
25. Energy Effcient VI Planning over Converged Optical Network and IT Resources......Page 746
26. Energy Aware Techniques In IP-Over-WDM Backbone Networks......Page 768
27. Energy-Aware Network Management and Content Distribution......Page 792
28. Energy Saving Strategies in Fixed Access Networks......Page 820
Back Cover......Page 836