Green Communications

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 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