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Green Radio

Prof Stephen McLaughlin, Prof Jacques Palicot, Prof H. Vincent Poor, Prof Honggang Zhang

  1. 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...

    Authors: Shancang Li, Xinheng Wang, Xu Zhou and Jue Wang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:306
  2. 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 ...

    Authors: Yasin Miar, Claude D’Amours and Tyseer Aboulnasr
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:281
  3. 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...

    Authors: Siyi Wang, Weisi Guo and Tim O'Farrell
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:193
  4. 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...

    Authors: Stefan Videv, John S Thompson, Harald Haas and Peter M Grant
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:181
  5. 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...

    Authors: Willem Vereecken, Margot Deruyck, Didier Colle, Wout Joseph, Mario Pickavet, Luc Martens and Piet Demeester
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:170
  6. 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...

    Authors: Mohammed-Amine Koulali, Abdellatif Kobbane, Mohammed El Koutbi, Hamidou Tembine and Jalel Ben-Othman
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:158
  7. 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...

    Authors: Myriam Ariaudo, Inbar Fijalkow, Jean-Luc Gautier, Mathilde Brandon, Babar Aziz and Borislav Milevsky
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:146
  8. 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...

    Authors: Luis Suarez, Loutfi Nuaymi and Jean-Marie Bonnin
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:142
  9. 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...

    Authors: Deli Qiao, Mustafa Cenk Gursoy and Senem Velipasalar
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:136
  10. 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...

    Authors: Xing Zhang, Qinzi Li, Yu Huang and Wenbo Wang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:129
  11. 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 ...

    Authors: Colin McGuire, Malcolm R Brew, Faisal Darbari, Gregour Bolton, Anthony McMahon, David H Crawford, Stephan Weiss and Robert W Stewart
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:112
  12. 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...

    Authors: Xiaohua Lian, Homayoun Nikookar and Leo P Ligthart
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:65
  13. 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...

    Authors: Bin Li, Zheng Zhou and Weixia Zou
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:47
  14. 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...

    Authors: Can Sun and Chenyang Yang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:46
  15. 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...

    Authors: Suhua Tang, Hiroyuki Yomo, Yoshihisa Kondo and Sadao Obana
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:42
  16. 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 ...

    Authors: Gilbert Micallef, Preben Mogensen and Hans-Otto Scheck
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:34