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To cope with the growing demand for wireless data and to extend service coverage, future 5G networks will increasingly rely on the use of low powered nodes to support massive connectivity in diverse set of applications and services [1]. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-08 H. Baligh , M. Hong , W. -C. Liao , Z. -Q. Luo , M. Razaviyayn , M. Sanjabi , R. Sun

The evolving fifth generation (5G) cellular wireless networks are envisioned to overcome the fundamental challenges of existing cellular networks, e.g., higher data rates, excellent end-to-end performance and user-coverage in hot-spots and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 E. Hossain , M. Rasti , H. Tabassum , A. Abdelnasser

The rapid growth of radio access networks (RANs) is increasing energy consumption and challenging the sustainability of future systems. We consider a dense-urban vertical heterogeneous network (vHetNet) comprising a high-altitude platform…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Maryam Salamatmoghadasi , Amir Mehrabian , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Georges Kaddoum

Reducing CO2 emissions is an important global environmental issue. Over the recent years, wireless and mobile communications have increasingly become popular with consumers. An increasingly popular type of wireless access is the so-called…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Sarra Mamechaoui , Fedoua Didi , Guy Pujolle

Compared with the energy efficiency of conventional mobile communication systems, the energy efficiency of fifth generation (5G) communication systems has been improved more than 30 times. However, the energy consumption of 5G communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Litao Yan , Xiaohu Ge

The year of 2020 has witnessed the unprecedented development of 5G networks, along with the widespread deployment of 5G base stations (BSs). Nevertheless, the enormous energy consumption of BSs and the incurred huge energy cost have become…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Hao Yuan , Guoming Tang , Deke Guo , Kui Wu , Xun Shao , Keping Yu , Wei Wei

As a core performance metric for green communications, the conventional energy efficiency definition has successfully resolved many issues in the energy efficient wireless network design. In the past several generations of wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Tao Yu , Shunqing Zhang , Xiaojing Chen , Xin Wang

Wireless networks are evolving from radio resource providers to complex systems that also involve computing, with the latter being distributed across edge and cloud facilities. Also, their optimization is shifting more and more from a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Mandar Datar , Mattia Merluzzi

The transition to sixth-generation (6G) networks calls for wireless transceivers with enhanced adaptability and efficiency. Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) have emerged as a promising solution, enabling dynamic control over the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Pinjun Zheng , Ruiqi Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Anas Chaaban , Atif Shamim , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

The research community has already identified that, by 2030, 5G networks will reach the capacity limits, and hence, will be inadequate to support next generation bandwidth-hungry, ubiquitous, intelligent services, and applications.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Sridhar Iyer , Anita Patil , Shilpa Bhairanatti , Soumya Halagatti , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya

The increasing environmental impact of the telecom industry has heightened the need for sustainable telecommunications networks. With skyrocketing data traffic and 5G gaining a foothold, telecom operators are under pressure to sustain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Praveen Hegde , Robin Joseph Varughese

As wireless networks evolve toward AI-integrated intelligence, conventional energy-efficiency metrics fail to capture the value of AI tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel EE metric called Token-Responsive Energy Efficiency (TREE), which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tao Yu , Kaixuan Huang , Tengsheng Wang , Jihong Li , Shunqing Zhang , Shuangfeng Han , Xiaoyun Wang , Qunsong Zeng , Kaibin Huang , Vincent K. N. Lau

The concept of energy-efficient computing is not new but recently the focus of the industries related to technology has been shifted towards energy utilization techniques with minimum energy loss. Computer Networks also needed to be energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Anum Masood

Various visions on the forthcoming sixth Generation (6G) networks point towards flexible connect-and-compute technologies to support future innovative services and the corresponding use cases. 6G should be capable to accommodate…

This paper presents the examination of the 5G cellular network aware of Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) and supported by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles working as mobile access nodes. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Adam Samorzewski , Adrian Kliks

Dramatic data traffic growth, especially wireless data, is driving a significant surge in energy consumption in the last mile access of the telecommunications infrastructure. The growing energy consumption not only escalates the operators'…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Nirwan Ansari , Tao Han , Mina Taheri

The sixth generation (6G), unlike any of the previous generations, is envisioned by 2030 to connect everything. Moreover, in addition to the new use cases, 6G is expected to support, it will need to provide a superior performance over 5G.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Nadia Adem , Ahmed Benfaid , Ramy Harib , Anas Alarabi

The Sixth Generation (6G) radio technology is expected to include local 6G networks as a special use case, extending the capabilities of `generic' 6G networks towards more demanding performance requirements. Reconfigurable intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Ishan Rangajith Koralege , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Arthur Sousa de Sena , Italo Atzeni

Renewable energy harvesting (EH) technology is expected to be pervasively utilized in the next generation (5G) mobile networks to support sustainable network developments and operations. However, the renewable energy supply is inherently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Shan Zhang , Ning Zhang , Sheng Zhou , Jie Gong , Zhisheng Niu , Xuemin , Shen

Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks are expected to support immersive and mission-critical applications requiring ultra-reliable communication, sub-second responsiveness, and multi-Gbps data rates. Dense small-cell deployments are a key…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Tuğçe Bilen , Ian F. Akyildiz