1. Guest Editorial Foreword

   • Angelos Antonopoulos
   • Konstantinos Samdanis
   • Christos Verikoukis

   EditorialNotes 20 November 2014 Pages: 1 - 3

2. Exploiting diversity of usage to enhance user equipment energy efficiency in LTE networks

   • Tuan Ta
   • John S. Baras

   OriginalPaper 10 December 2014 Pages: 5 - 23

   

3. Backhaul-aware energy efficient heterogeneous networks with dual connectivity

   • Athul Prasad
   • Andreas Maeder

   OriginalPaper 20 November 2014 Pages: 25 - 41

   

4. A lifetime extended multi-levels heterogeneous routing protocol for wireless sensor networks

   • Sudhanshu Tyagi
   • Sudeep Tanwar
   • Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

   OriginalPaper 22 January 2015 Pages: 43 - 62

   

5. An energy-aware scheme for efficient spectrum utilization in a 5G mobile cognitive radio network architecture

   • Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis
   • Athina Bourdena
   • Georgios Kormentzas

   OriginalPaper 14 November 2014 Pages: 63 - 75

   

6. Towards energy-efficient cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks: an overview

   • Saud Althunibat
   • Marco Di Renzo
   • Fabrizio Granelli

   OriginalPaper 21 November 2014 Pages: 77 - 91

   

7. An energy efficient DOA estimation algorithm for uncorrelated and coherent signals in virtual MIMO systems

   • Liangtian Wan
   • Guangjie Han
   • Naixing Feng

   OriginalPaper 19 November 2014 Pages: 93 - 110

   

8. Dynamic two-stage beam training for energy-efficient millimeter-wave 5G cellular systems

   • Joongheon Kim
   • Song-Nam Hong

   OriginalPaper 14 November 2014 Pages: 111 - 122

   

9. Energy efficient load balancing for future self-organized shared networks

   • Valdemar Monteiro
   • Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq
   • Jonathan Rodriguez

   OriginalPaper 20 November 2014 Pages: 123 - 135

   

10. Optimized handover strategy with hybrid satisfaction mechanisms

    • Nizar Zorba
    • Hossam S. Hassanein

    OriginalPaper 20 November 2014 Pages: 137 - 144

    

11. A quantitative analysis of the throughput gains and the energy efficiency of multi-radio transmission diversity in dense access networks

    • Georgios P. Koudouridis
    • Henrik Lundqvist
    • Gunnar Karlsson

    OriginalPaper 24 December 2014 Pages: 145 - 168

    

12. Relay selection for secure 5G green communications

    • Nikolaos Nomikos
    • Ana Nieto
    • Charalambos Skianis

    OriginalPaper 14 November 2014 Pages: 169 - 187