Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (eBook)

Muhammad Ismail: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar. Dr. Ismail's area of expertise is related to radio resource allocation in a heterogeneous wireless medium. He is a co-recipient of the best paper award at IEEE ICC '14 for a paper related to green resource allocation in a heterogeneous wireless medium: M. Ismail, A. T. Gamage, W. Zhuang, and X. Shen, "Energy efficient uplink resource allocation in a heterogeneous wireless medium," IEEE ICC'14, (to be listed in IEEExplore). Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir: Assistant Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar. Dr. Shakir's research interests include design and deployment of diverse green wireless communication systems including hyper-dense heterogeneous small-cell networks with particular focus on traffic offloading techniques and backhauling technologies. He has published more than 50 technical journal and conference papers and has contributed to 6 books. Khalid Qaraqe: Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar. Dr. Qaraqe has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He has worked for Qualcomm, Enad Design Systems, Cadence Design Systems/Tality Corporation, STC, SBC and Ericsson. His research interests include communication theory and its application to design and performance analysis of cellular systems and indoor communication systems. Particular interests are in the development of 4G LTE, cognitive radio systems, broadband wireless communications and diversity techniques. Erchin Serpedin: Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. Dr. Serpedin is the author of two research monographs, one edited textbook, 100 journal papers and 180 conference papers, and has served as associate editor for approximately 12 journals including IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Communications Letters. His research interests include signal processing, wireless communications, computational statistics, and bioinformatics and systems biology. He is currently serving as editor in chief of the Eurasip Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, an online journal edited by Springer. He is also an IEEE Fellow.

Preface

Acknowledgment

Dedication

Part I Introduction to Green Networks

1 Green Network Fundamentals

2 Green Network Solutions

Part II Multi-homing Resource Allocation

3 Green Multi-homing Approach

4 Multi-homing for a Green Downlink

5 Multi-homing for a Green Uplink

6 Radio Frequency and Visible Light Communication Internetworking

Part III Network Management Solutions

7 Dynamic Planning in Green Networks

8 Greening the Cell Edges

9 D2D Communications in Hierarchical HetNets

10 Emerging Device Centric Communications