Green Communications - Principles, Concepts and Practice

This book provides a comprehensive view of green communications considering all areas of ICT including wireless and wired networks. It analyses particular concepts and practices, addressing holistic approaches in future networks considering a system perspective. It makes full use of tables, illustrations, performance graphs, case studies and examples making it accessible for a wide audience.

List of contents

List of Contributors
 
Preface
 
1. Introduction
 
2. Fundamentals: Categorization of Green Communication concepts
 
3. Fundamentals: Energy Efficiency Metrics and Performance Tradeoffs of Green Wireless networks Trade-offs and metrics of green communication
 
4. Fundamentals: Embodied energy of communication devices
 
5. Wireless: Energy efficient Base stations
 
6. Wireless: Network design and planning
 
7. Wireless: Green Radio
 
8. Wireless: Network management
 
9. Wireless: Home and Enterprise Networks
 
10. Wireless: Towards Delay Tolerant Cognitive Cellular Networks
 
11. Wireless: Green MTC, M2M, Internet of Things
 
12. Wireless: Energy Saving standardization in Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems
 
13. Wireline: Routing, Switching and Transport
 
14. Wireline: Energy Efficient Ethernet
 
15. Wireline: Green Optical Networks
 
16. Wireline: Energy Efficient Networking in Modern Data Center
 
17. Wireline: SDN-Enabled Energy-Efficient Network Management
 
18. Wireline: Energy Efficiency Protocol Design
 
19. Wireline: Energy Efficiency benefits due to Information Centric Networking
 
20. Wireline: Energy Efficient Standards for Wireline Communications
 
21. Conclusion

About the author

Editors

Konstantinos Samdanis, NEC Europe, Germany

Peter Rost, NEC Europe, Germany

Andreas Maeder, NEC Europe, Germany

Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Christos Verikoukis, Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia, Spain

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive view of green communications considering all areas of ICT including wireless and wired networks. It analyses particular concepts and practices, addressing holistic approaches in future networks considering a system perspective.

Product details

• Authors: Konstantinos Samdanis, Andreas Maeder, Michela Meo, Peter Rost, Peter Maeder Rost, K Samdanis, Konstantinos Samdanis, Konstantinos Rost Samdanis, Christos Verikoukis
• Assisted by: Andreas Maeder (Editor), Maeder Andreas (Editor), Andreas Maeder et al (Editor), Michela Meo (Editor), Meo Michela (Editor), Pete Rost (Editor), Peter Rost (Editor), Rost Peter (Editor), Konstantinos Samdanis (Editor), Samdanis Konstantinos (Editor), Christos Verikoukis (Editor), Verikoukis Christos (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2015
• EAN: 9781118759264
• ISBN: 978-1-118-75926-4
• No. of pages: 430
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Business & management, drahtlose kommunikation, Kommunikationsnetze, Mobile & Wireless Communications, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik, Wirtschaft u. Management, Communication Technology - Networks, Kommunikationsnetz, Unternehmenstechnologie, Business Technology