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In this paper, we present a novel small cell activation mechanism for heterogeneous networks, which considers the energy saving gains obtained based on the amount of traffic load offloaded from the macro cell to small cells, while avoiding UE QoS degradation. The main idea is to offload traffic to small cells in energy saving mode, only when there is significant energy saving gains achievable from...
The energy consumption of a WBAN system can be divided into three parts: transmitting, sensing and channel switching. Considering the fact that the WBAN system are power-supply limited, the energy-efficient spectrum handoff schemes have been proposed by many previous works, aiming at extending the endurance life of a WBAN system. In this paper, we consider a WBAN system which access multiple PU channels...
In this paper we investigate the impact of asymmetric traffic patterns on the energy consumption and throughput in a wireless multi hop network. Network coding is a novel technique for communication systems and a viable solution for wireless multi hop networks. State of the art research is mainly focusing on ideal scenarios with symmetric traffic patterns that are not realistic in a real life scenario...
The widespread deployment of varying networking technologies, coupled with the exponential increase in end-user data demand, have led to the proliferation of multi-homed or multi-interface enabled devices. To date, these interfaces are mainly utilized one at a time based on network availability, cost, and user-choice. While researchers have focused on simultaneously leveraging these interfaces by...
Energy-efficient link adaptation is studied for transmission on a frequency-selective parallel AWGN channel. The total power dissipation model includes a circuit power that varies with the sum rate and a power amplifier efficiency that varies with the bandwidth used. The mathematical analysis provides insight into how the subcarrier rates should be chosen for optimal energy efficiency and suggests...
A novel dynamic contention window control scheme is presented in this paper to improve the performance and energy efficiency of IEEE 802.11-based CSMA/CA DCF wireless networks operating in ad-hoc mode. The number of competing nodes in physical carrier sense systems is one of the major impact on DCF performance and on the energy consumed. A new approach in presented in this paper is using a cross layer...
This paper analyzes the performance of enhanced relay-enabled distributed coordination function (ErDCF) for wireless ad hoc networks under transmission errors. The idea of ErDCF is to use high data rate nodes to work as relays for the low data rate nodes. ErDCF achieves higher throughput and reduces energy consumption compared to IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF) in an ideal channel...
Cognitive radio technology is used to improve spectrum efficiency by having the cognitive radios act as secondary users to access primary frequency bands when they are not currently being used. In general conditions, cognitive secondary users are mobile nodes powered by battery and consuming power is one of the most important problem that facing cognitive networks; therefore, the power consumption...
Energy management is the key issue in the design and operation of wireless network applications like sensor networks, pervasive computing and ubiquitous computing where the network is primarily driven by battery-powered embedded devices. This paper studies network coding as an energy minimization technique. Network coding reduces the energy consumption by minimizing the number of transmissions required...
In this paper we evaluate the performance of our earlier proposed enhanced relay-enabled distributed coordination function (ErDCF) for wireless ad hoc networks. The idea of ErDCF is to use high data rate nodes to work as relays for the low data rate nodes. ErDCF achieves higher throughput and reduced energy consumption compared to IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF). This is a result...
We find that the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol performs poorly for one-hop data collection in dense sensor networks, showing a steep deterioration in both throughput and energy consumption with increasing number of transmitters. We propose a channel feedback-based enhancement to the protocol that is significantly more scalable, showing a relatively flat, slow-changing total system throughput and energy...
The virtual channel flow control approach provides an efficient way for the high throughput of the on-chip routers. However, allocating the virtual channels (VCs) statically results in a waste of the area and energy consumption. To remedy this drawback, we propose a novel dynamic virtual channel architecture (DVCA) in this paper. By inspecting the physical link state and speculating the packet transferring,...
In this letter we propose an Markov model for slotted CSMA/CA algorithm working in a non-acknowledgement mode, specified in IEEE 802.15.4 standard. Both saturation throughput and energy consumption are modeled as functions of backoff window size, number of contending devices and frame length. Simulations show that the proposed model can achieve a very high accuracy (less than 1% mismatch) if compared...
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