In this survey, we discuss the role of energy in the design of future mobile networks and, in
particular, we advocate and elaborate on the use of energy harvesting (EH) hardware as a …

Owing to the ever-increasing energy consumption, energy efficiency (EE) is an important
parameter for next generation 5G network. The Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) is a …

The use of base station (BS) sleep modes is one of the most studied approaches for the
reduction of the energy consumption of radio access networks (RANs). Many papers have …

Macro cells'(MCs) densification with small cells (SCs) is one of the promising solutions to
cope with the increasing demand for higher data rates in 5G heterogeneous networks …

The high density of small cells in the Ultra-Dense Network (UDN) has increased the capacity
and the coverage of Fifth Generation (5G) cellular networks. However, with increasing the …

Renewable power provisioning of the base stations (BS) in addition to the traditional power
grid connectivity presents an interesting prospect towards realizing green future network …

It can be predicted that the infrastructure of the existing wireless networks will not fill the
requirement of the fifth generation (5G) wireless network due to the high data rates and a …

Dense heterogeneous network serves as one of the most promising technologies for the
upcoming 5G network. However, with a larger number of densely deployed small cells, the …

The base station (BS) switching technique has recently attracted considerable attention for
reducing power consumption in wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a novel BS …

This paper proposes an energy management framework for cellular heterogeneous
networks (HetNets) supported by dynamic solar powered drones. A HetNet composed of a …