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A Practical Approach to Energy Efficient Communications in Mobile Wireless Networks

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Energy efficiency and capacity maximization are two of the most challenging issues to be addressed by current and future cellular networks. Significant research effort has been placed recently in reducing the total energy consumption while maintaining or improving capacity either by introducing more efficient hardware components or by developing innovative software techniques. In this paper we investigate a novel networking paradigm to address the aforementioned problems. By capitalizing on the inherent delay tolerance of Internet type services, we argue that significant energy savings can be achieved by postponing the communication of information for a later time instance with better networking conditions. We device decentralized algorithms for the proposed postponement schemes and show the superior performance of implementing such schemes over the traditional cellular operation.

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  5. To compensate for cumulative errors, a new A-GPS signal can be obtained periodically as discussed in [12].

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The work reported in this paper has formed part of the Green Radio Core 5 Research Programme of the Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile & Personal Communications, Mobile VCE, www.mobilevce.com. This research has been funded by EPSRC and by the Industrial Companies who are Members of Mobile VCE.

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  1. Center for Telecommunications Research, King’s College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK

    Panayiotis Kolios & Vasilis Friderikos

  2. Operational Research Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics, London, WC2A 2AE, UK

    Katerina Papadaki

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Kolios, P., Friderikos, V. & Papadaki, K. A Practical Approach to Energy Efficient Communications in Mobile Wireless Networks. Mobile Netw Appl 17, 267–280 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-011-0337-z

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