A survey of energy-efficient techniques for 5G networks and challenges ahead

Stefano Buzzi; I. Chih-Lin; Thierry E. Klein; H. Vincent Poor; Chenyang Yang; Alessio Zappone

doi:10.1109/JSAC.2016.2550338

A survey of energy-efficient techniques for 5G networks and challenges ahead

Stefano Buzzi, I. Chih-Lin, Thierry E. Klein, H. Vincent Poor, Chenyang Yang, Alessio Zappone

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After about a decade of intense research, spurred by both economic and operational considerations, and by environmental concerns, energy efficiency has now become a key pillar in the design of communication networks. With the advent of the fifth generation of wireless networks, with millions more base stations and billions of connected devices, the need for energy-efficient system design and operation will be even more compelling. This survey provides an overview of energy-efficient wireless communications, reviews seminal and recent contribution to the state-of-the-art, including the papers published in this special issue, and discusses the most relevant research challenges to be addressed in the future.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	7446253
Pages (from-to)	697-709
Number of pages	13
Journal	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Volume	34
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2016.2550338
State	Published - Apr 2016

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Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

5G
Energy efficiency
cloud RAN
dense networks
energy harvesting
massive MIMO
mmWaves
resource allocation
small cells
visible-light communications
wireless power transfer

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