Feng Han (University of Maryland), “Energy efficiency optimization in green wireless communications”, Advisor: K. J. Ray Liu (2013)
The rising energy concern and the ubiquity of energy-consuming wireless applications have sparked a keen interest in the development and deployment of energy-efficient and eco-friendly wireless communication technology. Looking back at the wireless communications of the past decades, the air-interface design and network deployment had mainly focused on the spectral efficiency, instead of energy efficiency.