TY - JOUR
T1 - Gate
T2 - Greening at the edges
AU - Ansari, Nirwan
AU - Han, Tao
AU - Taheri, Mina
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by NSF under grant no. CNS-1218181, GATE: Greening At The Edges.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/4
Y1 - 2016/4
N2 - Dramatic data traffic growth, especially in wireless data, is driving a significant surge in energy consumption in the last mile access of the telecommunications infrastructure. The growing energy consumption not only escalates operators' operational expenditures, but also leads to a significant rise in carbon footprints. Therefore, enhancing the energy efficiency of broadband access networks is becoming a necessity to bolster social, environmental, and economic sustainability. This article provides an overview on the design and optimization of energy-efficient broadband access networks, analyzes the energy-efficient design of passive optical networks, discusses the enabling technologies for next generation broadband wireless access networks, and elicits emerging technologies for enhancing the energy efficiency of the last mile access of the network infrastructure.
AB - Dramatic data traffic growth, especially in wireless data, is driving a significant surge in energy consumption in the last mile access of the telecommunications infrastructure. The growing energy consumption not only escalates operators' operational expenditures, but also leads to a significant rise in carbon footprints. Therefore, enhancing the energy efficiency of broadband access networks is becoming a necessity to bolster social, environmental, and economic sustainability. This article provides an overview on the design and optimization of energy-efficient broadband access networks, analyzes the energy-efficient design of passive optical networks, discusses the enabling technologies for next generation broadband wireless access networks, and elicits emerging technologies for enhancing the energy efficiency of the last mile access of the network infrastructure.
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U2 - 10.1109/MWC.2016.7462486
DO - 10.1109/MWC.2016.7462486
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84968877291
SN - 1536-1284
VL - 23
SP - 62
EP - 69
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications
IS - 2
M1 - 7462486
ER -