Towards Green Wireless Networks: Energy-Aware Techniques for Emerging Applications with Evolving Network Architectures

迈向绿色无线网络：采用不断发展的网络架构的新兴应用的能源感知技术

• 批准号: RGPIN-2015-04641
• 负责人: Song, Wei
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: University of New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=761630
• 关键词: Towards; Green; Wireless; Networks; Energy

The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth of tremendous mobile traffic, pervasive smart devices, and assorted new applications. While this growth leads to increasing revenue for the global mobile industry, there are rising concerns on environmental impact and high capital/operating expenditure. Driven by the pressing needs from both economical and ecological perspectives, energy efficiency and greening becomes one of the dominant themes for 5G wireless networks. Although such demands have attracted considerable attentions and efforts from the academia and industry, the evolving network architectures need to be continuously augmented with green networking algorithms to fully harvest the potentials. Meanwhile, new user-driven applications keep emerging and call for efficient solutions to maintain sustainable growth.This research program will contribute to the evolution towards next-generation green wireless networks through exploring energy-aware techniques that leverage evolving network architectures, smarter mobile devices, and diverse characteristics of a plethora of emerging applications. Particularly, we will focus on three thrusts. First, exploiting the intelligence of smart devices, we will develop new algorithms for cooperation cluster grouping, task assignment, and incentive for user participation. Energy-efficient multipath transport protocols with user cooperation will also be studied by balancing throughput performance and energy consumption. Second, taking advantage of multi-tier radio access networks, we will develop traffic-aware sleep schemes for different types of base stations, and service-differentiated scheduling schemes for small cells powered by renewable energy sources. Third, leveraging the evolving mobile core with in-network caching, we will develop smart routing algorithms that can reduce energy consumption by shifting traffic while ensuring user quality-of-experience (QoE).This research is expected to benefit Canadian industry by providing guidelines and references for wireless service providers to expand their service capacity while saving capital/operating expenditures. There will also be significant benefits to Canadian society through energy conservation for environment protection. Highly-qualified personnel will be trained in this program and will contribute to the progress of green wireless networks.

过去十年见证了巨大的移动流量、普及的智能设备和各种新应用程序的爆炸性增长。虽然这种增长导致全球移动行业收入增加，但人们对环境影响和高资本/运营支出的担忧日益增加。在经济和生态角度的迫切需求推动下，能源效率和绿色化成为5G无线网络的主导主题之一。尽管此类需求引起了学术界和工业界的广泛关注和努力，但不断发展的网络架构需要不断增强绿色网络算法才能充分发挥潜力。与此同时，新的用户驱动的应用程序不断涌现，并需要有效的解决方案来保持可持续增长。该研究计划将通过探索利用不断发展的网络架构、更智能的移动设备、以及大量新兴应用程序的不同特征。特别是，我们将重点关注三个重点。首先，利用智能设备的智能，我们将开发用于协作集群分组、任务分配和用户参与激励的新算法。还将通过平衡吞吐量性能和能耗来研究具有用户协作的节能多路径传输协议。其次，利用多层无线接入网络，我们将针对不同类型的基站开发流量感知的睡眠方案，以及针对可再生能源供电的小基站的服务差异化调度方案。第三，利用不断发展的移动核心和网内缓存，我们将开发智能路由算法，通过转移流量来减少能耗，同时确保用户体验质量（QoE）。这项研究预计将通过提供指导方针使加拿大工业受益为无线服务提供商在节省资本/运营支出的同时扩大服务能力提供参考。节能环保也将为加拿大社会带来重大利益。该项目将培养高素质人才，为绿色无线网络的进步做出贡献。