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Sustainable Wireless Networks

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In the last decade, a large number of works on energy-efficient, high-quality and low-cost wireless access services have shown up (Cai et al., IEEE Wireless Communications, 2011; Chen et al., IEEE Communications Magazine, 2012; Asefi et al., IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2012). Generally, these solutions can be divided into two classes, namely, customer-oriented and infrastructure-oriented solutions. Customer devices, e.g., wireless sensor nodes (Akyildiz et al., Computer Networks, 2002) and mobile terminals, usually are powered by batteries. Thus, the research objective of customer-oriented solutions mainly focus on improving energy efficiency to prolong the battery lifetime by various methods including energy-efficient software applications (Pantazis and Vergados, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2007), hardware design (Hempstead et al., Journal of Low Power Electronics, 2008), and protocol improvements (Akkaya and Younis, Ad hoc networks, 2005). Compared with customer devices, the network infrastructure contributes to the dominant portion of the total energy consumption of the system. For example, the BSs consume 60–80 % of the network’s energy consumption (Marsan et al., IEEE ICC Workshops, 2009; Oh et al., IEEE Communications Magazine, 2011). Therefore, it is more important to reduce energy consumption of the infrastructure in order to improve the energy efficiency of the overall system. To sustain the wireless operations, one promising solution is to use green energy to power the infrastructure network devices. In such a sustainable network, the research objective and performance metric are changed from energy efficiency to energy sustainability, i.e., to ensure harvested energy can sustain the normal network operations. We categorize the existing works in the literature related on sustainable wireless networks into three research issues: (1) network planning, (2) energy modeling, and (3) resource allocation.

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Zheng, Z., Cai, L., Shen, X. (2013). Background and Literature Survey. In: Sustainable Wireless Networks. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02469-1_2

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