Sustainability for Next Generation Smart Networks
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 396
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy efficiency in telecommunication networks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy-efficient communications represent one of the hot topics of academic and industrial research in recent years, particularly in light of the current high energy costs. Meanwhile, the number of always-on connected devices has been growing at an outstanding pace over the last decade, in turn contributing to the growing energy footprint. As a countermeasure, numerous green radio systems have been proposed with efficient algorithms, including scheduling and low-power modes. Promising energy-efficient techniques are being proposed for systems which go beyond 5G, as well as the emerging 6G systems that intelligently optimise their PHY and MAC layers and often exploit machine learning. Research on improving the efficiency of harvesting electromagnetic energy from surrounding wireless networks, solar/artificial lighting, heating, and wireless power transfer is also ongoing.
This Special Issue aims to gather state-of-the-art articles on subjects related to high-efficiency communications systems. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Machine-learning for smart grid;
- Energy-efficient IoT networks;
- Energy harvesting wireless communications;
- Green communication systems and applications;
- Green radio for beyond-5G/6G;
- Energy-efficient wireless communications;
- Spectrum and energy efficiencies trade-offs;
- Efficient wireless power transfer;
- Efficient wireless communication protocols;
- Efficient wireless mesh networks.
Dr. Abolfazl Mehbodniya
Dr. Julian L. Webber
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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