Exploiting the overhearing capabilities of transmitting nodes to increase the energy efficiency in dense networks

• Published in: EURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking Vol. 2017; no. 1; pp. 1 - 16
• Main Authors: Torrea-Duran, Rodolfo, Rosas, Fernando, Pollin, Sofie, Vandendorpe, Luc, Moonen, Marc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 06.11.2017; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Communications Engineering; Dense networks; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Engineering; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Networks; Overhearing capabilities; Power control; Power efficiency; Relaying; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Transmission; Relaying; Energy efficiency; Dense networks; Overhearing capabilities

The 1000-fold capacity increase envisioned by dense 5G networks results also in a tremendous increase in the energy consumption of the whole network. Utilizing relays in combination with physical-layer network coding (PNC) has been proposed as an energy-efficient solution to this problem by creating...