Prof Stephen McLaughlin, Prof Jacques Palicot, Prof H. Vincent Poor, Prof Honggang Zhang
Green Radio
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Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2013 2013:21
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Efficient blind spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks based on compressed sensing
Spectrum sensing is a key technique in cognitive radio networks (CRNs), which enables cognitive radio nodes to detect the unused spectrum holes for dynamic spectrum access. In practice, only a small part of sp...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:306 -
A novel reduced power compressive sensing technique for wideband cognitive radio
Wideband spectrum sensing for cognitive radio requires high rate analog to digital (A/D) converters whose power consumption is proportional to the sampling rate. In this article, we propose to use sub-Nyquist ...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:281 -
Low energy indoor network: deployment optimisation
This article considers what the minimum energy indoor access point deployment is in order to achieve a certain downlink quality-of-service. The article investigates two conventional multiple-access technologie...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:193 -
Resource allocation for energy efficient cellular systems
The need for more throughput in wireless cellular networks has been increasing in recent years. It has led to an increase in operational costs due to higher energy use as operators deploy more cell sites or in...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:181 -
Evaluation of the potential for energy saving in macrocell and femtocell networks using a heuristic introducing sleep modes in base stations
In mobile technologies two trends are competing. On the one hand, the mobile access network requires optimisation in energy consumption. On the other hand, data volumes and required bit rates are rapidly incre...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:170 -
Dynamic power control for energy harvesting wireless multimedia sensor networks
Optimization of energy usage in wireless sensor networks (WSN) has been an active research field for the last decades and various approaches have been explored. In fact, A well designed energy consumption mode...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:158 -
Green radio despite "Dirty RF" front-end
In this article, we show that the non-ideal Radio-Frequency (RF) front-ends have to be corrected in order to contribute in a Green radio development. In fact, the effects of typical RF imperfections, like nonl...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:146 -
An overview and classification of research approaches in green wireless networks
Energy consumption of wireless networks is now a very important research topic and several research teams worldwide are proposing solutions for the so-called green wireless networks, i.e. energy-efficient wire...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:142 -
Energy efficiency in multiaccess fading channels under QoS constraints
In this article, transmission over multiaccess fading channels under quality-of-service (QoS) constraints is studied in the low-power and wideband regimes. QoS constraints are imposed as limitations on the buf...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:136 -
An energy-efficient opportunistic multicast scheduling based on superposition coding for mixed traffics in wireless networks
Energy efficient transmission in wireless networks is an important issue for green communications which contribute not only to goals for sustainable development, but also to the profitability of the telecommun...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:129 -
HopScotch-a low-power renewable energy base station network for rural broadband access
The provision of adequate broadband access to communities in sparsely populated rural areas has in the past been severely restricted. In this article, we present a wireless broadband access testbed running in ...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:112 -
An energy efficient semi-static power control and link adaptation scheme in UMTS HSDPA
High speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) has been successfully applied in commercial systems and improves user experience significantly. However, it incurs substantial energy consumption. In this article, we ...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:87 -
Distributed beam forming with phase-only control for green cognitive radio networks
Cognitive radio (CR) is an intelligent radio system and is able to share the spectrum with licensed users (LU). By adopting adaptive beam forming techniques, CR can reuse the spectrum with LU via directing mai...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:65 -
Ultra-spectra communication system (USCS): a promising way to energy-efficient green communication networks
In this article, we investigate a promising transmission approach for green communication networks. By combining the appealing single-cycle modulation technique with traditional pulse modulation found on the u...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:47 -
Energy efficiency analysis of one-way and two-way relay systems
Relaying is supposed to be a low energy consumption technique since the long distance transmission is divided into several short distance transmissions. When the power consumptions (PCs) other than that consum...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:46 -
Wake-up receiver for radio-on-demand wireless LANs
Recent investigations show that access points (APs) of wireless local area networks (WLANs) are idle during much of the time and that an AP in its idle state still consumes a large percentage of power. Wake-up...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:42 -
Mobile operators have set ambitious targets--is it possible to boost network capacity while reducing its energy consumption?
While operators have to upgrade the capacity of their networks, they have committed themselves to reduce their CO2 emissions, partly by reducing their energy consumption. This article investigates the challenges ...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:34