Green communications : theoretical fundamentals, algorithms and applications / edited by, Jinsong Wu, Sundeep Rangan, Honggang Zhang.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Runtime-Controlled Energy Reduction Techniques for FPGAs -- Introduction -- Island-Style Field-Programmable Gate Arrays -- Power Dissipation in VLSI -- Energy Reduction Techniques for FPGAs -- Runtime-Controlled Power-Gated FPGAs -- Conclusion

Smart Grid and ICT's Role in Its Evolution -- Climate Change -- Conventional Electricity Grid -- Overview of Smart Grid -- Smart Grid Applications -- Command and Control Strategies -- Smart Grid Building Blocks -- Smart Grid Network Topologies -- Smart Grid Communication Systems -- Smart Grid ICT Future Developments
Energy Saving Solutions and Practices of China Mobile -- Introduction -- Energy Consumption Status and Objective of CMCC -- Views on Energy Saving of Wireless Communication Devices and Systems from CMCC -- Energy Saving Solutions for Wireless Networks -- The High-Energy-Efficient Hardware Platform -- Software Power-Saving Features -- GSM Intelligent Power-Saving System Based on Base Station Sector Switching -- Highly Energy-Efficient RAN Network Architecture -- Energy Saving Proposals for Core Networks and Data Centers -- Energy Saving of Data Center Facilities -- Energy Saving of IT Equipment -- Energy-Saving Solutions for Accessory Equipments Standard Methodologies for Energy Efficiency Assessment -- An Overview on Novel Green Network Technologies -- Benchmarking Methodologies -- Comparison among the Standards -- Performance Evaluation Reciprocal Learning for Energy-Efficient Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks -- Introduction -- Network Model and Problem Formulation -- Distributed Learning Algorithms with Dynamic Conjectures Green Communications for Carbon Emission Reductions: Architectures and Standards -- Introduction -- Network Architectures and Technologies to Reduce Carbon Emissions -- Testbeds -- Carbon Standards for Communications Technologies The Role of ICT in the Evolution Towards Smart Grids -- Introduction -- Legacy Energy Grids -- The Concept of Smart Grid -- Hot Topics for Smart Grids -- Political and Standardization Initiatives -- Architectures for Smart Grids -- Research Issues and Challenges for ICT Moving a Processing Element from Hot to Cool Spots: Is This an Efficient Method to Decrease Leakage Power Consumption in FPGAs? -- Power Consumption Sources -- Digital Thermal Sensor -- Experimental Setup -- Experiments and Results Cloud Computing - A Greener Future for IT -- Why IT Needs to be Green -- Cloud Computing, the Future of IT -- Cloud Foundation: Green Data Center -- Cloud Building Block: Green Hardware -- Cloud Core: Intelligent Management Software -- Outlook to a Green Cloud Future Energy-Effcient Management of Campus PCs -- Motivations -- Monitoring PC Usage -- Reducing PC Energy Consumption
FOCUS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS -- C-RAN: A Green RAN Framework -- Challenges of Today's RAN -- Architecture of C-RAN -- Advantages of C-RAN -- Challenges of C-RAN -- China Mobile's View on RAN Evolution Path -- Green Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks -- Introduction -- Energy Harvesting Techniques -- Energy Conservation Techniques -- Energy Synchronization Techniques

Green Wireless Communications under Quality of Service Constraints -- Preliminaries - Effective Capacity and Energy Per Information Bit -- Variable-Rate/Variable-Power and Variable-Rate/Fixed-Power Transmissions -- Fixed-Rate/Fixed-Power Transmissions -- Transmissions over Imperfectly-Known Wireless Channels -- On the Energy Efficiency-Spectral Efficiency Trade-off in Cellular Systems -- Background Literature --EE-SE Trade-Off on a Link -- EE-SE Trade-Off in a Cell -- EE-SE Trade-Off in Cellular Systems Energy Savings for Mobile Communication Networks through Dynamic Spectrum and Traffic Load Management -- Dynamic Spectrum and Traffic Load Management -- Performance Assessment Toward Energy-Efficient Operation of Base Stations in Cellular Wireless Networks -- Overview of Green Cellular Network Design -- Energy-Aware Heterogeneous Deployment -- Base Station On/Off and User Association Green Wireless Access Networks -- Cell Deployment Strategies -- Relaying Techniques -- Multi-RAT Deployment -- Base Station Coordination and Cooperation -- Adaptive Network Reconfiguration -- Radio Resource Management -- Complementary Research Activities for Access Networks -- Future Architectures Energy Efficient Communications in MIMO Wireless Channels -- Introduction -- On the Design of Energy-Efficient MIMO Single-User Communications -- On the Design of Energy-Efficient MIMO Multi-User Communications -- Concluding Remarks and Open Issues Minimising Power Consumption to Achieve More Efficient Green Cellular Radio Base Station Designs -- Introduction -- Energy Reduction Techniques for High Traffic Load Scenarios -- Energy Reduction Techniques for Low Traffic Load Scenarios -- Other Energy Reduction Techniques Energy Conservation of Mobile Terminals in Multi-cell TDMA Networks -- Introduction -- System Model -- Problem Formulation and Decoupling Property -- The DSP Algorithm -- Simulation results -- Potential Research Directions Energy Efficiency for Wireless Relay Systems -- Introduction -- Background -- One-Way Relay Systems -- Two-Way Relay systems -- Conclusions Holistic Approach to Green Wireless Communications Based on Multicarrier Technologies -- Introduction -- Efficient Use of Natural Resources in Wireless Multicarrier -- Reducing the Electromagnetic Pollution -- Spectrum Recycling in Future Multicarrier -- Concluding Remarks Green Video Streaming over Cellular Networks -- Introduction -- Green Video Communications -- Energy Efficient Downlink VBR Video Streaming -- Conclusion and Future Directions FOCUS ON WIRELINE COMMUNICATIONS -- Trading off Energy and Forwarding Performance in Next-Generation Network Devices -- Introduction -- The Devices' Internal Sources of Energy Consumption -- Power Scaling Techniques -- A Theoretical Model of the Trade-Off Between Energy Consumption and Quality of Service -- Conclusions Energy Efficient VI Planning over Converged Optical Network and IT Resources -- Introduction -- Energy Consumption Models for the Physical Infrastructure -- Numerical Results and Comparisons -- Conclusions Energy Aware Techniques In IP-Over-WDM Backbone Networks -- Introduction -- Power Aware Network Topology Design -- Energy Aware Traffic Engineering Energy-Aware Network Management and Content Distribution -- Introduction -- Problem Formulation -- Distributed Algorithms -- Performance Evaluation -- Conclusions Energy Saving Strategies in Fixed Access Networks -- Introduction -- Technology -- Architecture -- Dynamic Power Management -- Conclusions -- Index