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Sustainable Wireless Networks

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The growing user demand and the expansion of wireless communications have led to a tremendous growth of energy consumption in wireless access. Due to the limited battery capacity of mobile devices and the increasing cost of energy from the electricity grid, energy efficiency has become one of the most essential research issues in wireless communications. Many studies have investigated how to minimize energy consumption to extend the network lifetime (Zhuang et al., IEEE ICDCS Workshop on Wireless Adhoc and Sensor Networking (WWASN), 2009; Zhuang et al., IEEE INFOCOM, 2010; Chao and Lee, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2010) or maximize energy efficiency or energy utilization (Miao et al., IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2012; Lim and CLJ, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2013; Chamam and Pierre, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2009) of a communication network powered by traditional energy.

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  1. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Zhongming Zheng

  2. Huawei Technologies Inc., Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA

    Lin X. Cai

  3. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Xuemin Shen

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Zheng, Z., Cai, L., Shen, X. (2013). Introduction. In: Sustainable Wireless Networks. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02469-1_1

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