Learning report on Green Cellular Communication.pdf

Learning report on Green Cellular Communication Chunqiu Wang nihaochunqiu@ Introduction According to a report [2], human industrial activities emit twice more CO2 than natural processes can absorb at the moment. Among the energy-consuming industries, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry takes 2% of global total CO2 emissions and 3% of global energy expenditure. In particular, 57% of the energy consumption of the ICT industry is attributed to users and network devices in mobile and wireless networks. These greenhouse gases (GHGs) makes the Earth warm, however, with too much GHGs, it causes global climate change, becoming the increasingly serious environmental problem around the world. On the other hand, with the ubiquitous application of modern cellular and wireless technology, not only voice services, but also with the increasing demand of high speed data transmission, the explosive development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has significantly enlarged both the energy demands and the CO2 emissions, and consequently contributes to make the energy crisis and global warming problems worse. So, besides the main focus of research on achieving high data rate of cellular communication, we must find energy-effective solutions to establish limits on overall emissions of GHGs. Definition of Green cellular communication “Green Cellular communication”, in short, stands for the communication causing less environmental pollution, mainly in two aspects: with less radiation; less power assumption or less greenhouse gas emission. Green communication techniques Various research studies focus on significant optimization or even reconstruction of all layers and components in the cellular communication systems and these techniques can be categorized into three kinds: Processing techniques ON/OFF resource allocation of backbones Dynamic scheduling algorithms Inte