The global footprint of mobile communications: The ecological and economic perspective

By Albrecht J. Fehske, Gerhard P. Fettweis, J. Malmodin, G. Biczók. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2011

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Management Science and Operations Research, Media Technology

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Massive MIMO in the UL/DL of Cellular Networks: How Many Antennas Do We Need? (2013, background): “This aspect is not only relevant from a business point of view but also addresses environmental as well as health concerns related to mobile communications [5], [6].”
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Assessing ICT global emissions footprint: Trends to 2040 & recommendations (2018, background): “Our top priority should be to tackle our biggest sources of CO2 footprint, namely data centers and communication networks (Fehske et al., 2011).”
A Survey of Device-to-Device Communications: Research Issues and Challenges (2018, background): “The prognosis provided by [259], indicates that the carbon footprint of mobile communications will annually increase upto 11 Mto CO2 by”
Downlink Packet Scheduling in LTE Cellular Networks: Key Design Issues and a Survey (2013, background): “Recent studies reported in [68] and [69] quantify the ecological footprint of future cellular networks.”
A Survey of Energy-Efficient Techniques for 5G Networks and Challenges Ahead (2016, background): “At present, information and communication technology (ICT) systems are responsible for 5% of the world’s CO 2 emissions [3], [4], but this percentage is increasing as rapidly as the number of connected devices.”
Energy-Efficient Base-Stations Sleep-Mode Techniques in Green Cellular Networks: A Survey (2015, background): “Evidently, several telecom providers such as PCCW and Vodafone have been taking measures to reduce their energy-related operating cost [73]–[75].”
Dynamic Base Station Switching-On/Off Strategies for Green Cellular Networks (2013, background): “A quantitative study in [5] estimated the corresponding figure for cellular networks to be 0.”
User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks: A Survey of Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions (2021, neutral): “Problem Type Approach Reference”
Energy and Spectral Efficiency of Very Large Multiuser MIMO Systems (2011, background): “On the downlink, much of the electrical power consumed by a BS is spent by power amplifiers and associated circuits and cooling systems [12].”
Energy Efficient Heterogeneous Cellular Networks (2013, background): “H. Shin is with the Department of Electronics and Radio Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi-do 446-701, Korea (e-mail: hshin@khu.ac.kr) (corresponding author).”
Emerging Optical Wireless Communications-Advances and Challenges (2015, background): “by several hundred-fold within the next decade [3].”