EPSRC/VCE Strategic Partnership: Green Radio
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Abstract
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Publications
Guo W
(2013)
Final Technical Report: Architectures
Guo W
(2012)
Environmental and economically sustainable cellular networks
in Journal of Green Engineering, River Publishers
Guo W
(2012)
Dense Urban Het-Nets: Integration Technical Report
Guo W
(2013)
Dynamic Cell Expansion with Self-Organizing Cooperation
in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Guo W
(2012)
Small-Net vs. Relays in a Heterogeneous Low Energy LTE Architecture
in Journal of Communications
Guo W
(2011)
Baseline Green Radio Architecture
| Description | That small cells and cell densification in radio access networks helps to save energy consumption while growing capacity. That the salient energy and capacity metrics in radio access networks are area averaged power, area averaged throughput and their product. |
| Exploitation Route | Findings can be used to design future radio access networks such as LTE-Advanced (4G). Findings directly support and initiate research into 5G radio access networks. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| URL | http://www.mobilevce.com |
| Description | Principles developed in Green Radio on energy saving and capacity enhancement through small cell deployment has become a major solution for 4G networks as well as setting the research agenda for 5G research into heterogeneous and small cell networks. An energy efficiency evaluation framework developed in the project is being adopted by other organisations. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic |
| Description | Towards an Intelligent Information Infrastructure |
| Amount | £853,379 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/L026147/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 12/2017 |
| Description | Green Radio Mobile VCE |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | New techniques to reduce energy consumption in wireless networks. Specifically, new energy consumption metrics; a system level simulator of LTE; small cell radio access network studies; energy efficient packet scheduling protocols; energy efficient deployment strategies for indoor femtocells and WiFi access points; and relaying techniques based on network coding principles. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Edinburgh contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on sleepmodes, packet scheduling and femtocell deployment. Bristol contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on antennas, power amplifier design and radio resource allocation. KCL contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on relaying and network routing. Mobile VCE contributed through steering the project, providing data and technical expertise. |
| Impact | The main Sheffield outcomes are listed against EP/G064105/1 |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Green Radio Mobile VCE |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | New techniques to reduce energy consumption in wireless networks. Specifically, new energy consumption metrics; a system level simulator of LTE; small cell radio access network studies; energy efficient packet scheduling protocols; energy efficient deployment strategies for indoor femtocells and WiFi access points; and relaying techniques based on network coding principles. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Edinburgh contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on sleepmodes, packet scheduling and femtocell deployment. Bristol contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on antennas, power amplifier design and radio resource allocation. KCL contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on relaying and network routing. Mobile VCE contributed through steering the project, providing data and technical expertise. |
| Impact | The main Sheffield outcomes are listed against EP/G064105/1 |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Green Radio Mobile VCE |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | New techniques to reduce energy consumption in wireless networks. Specifically, new energy consumption metrics; a system level simulator of LTE; small cell radio access network studies; energy efficient packet scheduling protocols; energy efficient deployment strategies for indoor femtocells and WiFi access points; and relaying techniques based on network coding principles. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Edinburgh contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on sleepmodes, packet scheduling and femtocell deployment. Bristol contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on antennas, power amplifier design and radio resource allocation. KCL contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on relaying and network routing. Mobile VCE contributed through steering the project, providing data and technical expertise. |
| Impact | The main Sheffield outcomes are listed against EP/G064105/1 |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Green Radio Mobile VCE |
| Organisation | Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) in mobile communications |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | New techniques to reduce energy consumption in wireless networks. Specifically, new energy consumption metrics; a system level simulator of LTE; small cell radio access network studies; energy efficient packet scheduling protocols; energy efficient deployment strategies for indoor femtocells and WiFi access points; and relaying techniques based on network coding principles. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Edinburgh contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on sleepmodes, packet scheduling and femtocell deployment. Bristol contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on antennas, power amplifier design and radio resource allocation. KCL contributed techniques to reduce wireless network energy consumption based on relaying and network routing. Mobile VCE contributed through steering the project, providing data and technical expertise. |
| Impact | The main Sheffield outcomes are listed against EP/G064105/1 |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Title | VCE System Level Simulator (VCEsim) |
| Description | As part of the Green Radio project, a system level simulator for modelling the performance of multi-user, multi-cell LTE radio access networks was developed. The software was used to evaluate the energy efficiency of techniques developed by researchers across Bristol, Edinburgh, KCL and Sheffield to established an integrated energy solution. The software was made available in open source form to the member companies of MVCE and the partner Universities. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2012 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | To inform industry and the academic community of the energy saving potential of small cell and Het Net deployments in 4G networks. The outputs have directly fed the research agenda in 5G where cell densification is a major strategy to both in crease capacity whilst saving energy. A key reference is: Badic, B., O'Farrell, T., Loskot, P. and He, J., "Energy efficient radio access architectures for green radio: large versus small cell size deployment", Proc. of 70th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2009-Fall), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 20-23 September 2009 Invited Paper (DOI: 10.1109/VETECF.2009.5379035, cited: 144) |
| URL | http://www.commnet.ac.uk/documents/wireless_testbeds/1_UK-EU%20testbeds.pdf |
| Description | China Expo Shanghai 2010 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Created discussion on the role of industry steered academic research. Increased the profile of energy efficient research in wireless communications helping to motivate a global research effort. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Energy Metrics and Figures of Merit for Planning EE Communication Networks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This was a plenary speech given at the Third ETSI Workshop on ICT Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability, 3-5 June 2015, Sophia-Antipolis, France. The talk continued to develop the theme of a joint energy and data volume metric for quantifying the energy efficiency of communication networks. The talk was directly relevant to ETSI's developing standard in energy efficiency measurements for wireless communication networks (ETSI ES 203228). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.etsi.org/news-events/events/867-third-etsi-workshop-on-ict-energy-efficiency-and-environm... |
| Description | Energy Metrics and Figures of Merit for Radio Access Networks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited plenary speech at the Eighth International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, Oxford, U.K., 10-12 September 2014. The speech was recorded and displayed on YouTube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://at-web1.comp.glam.ac.uk/ngmast14/KN-Tim.html |
| Description | Energy Metrics and Figures of Merit for Radio Access Networks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited presentation on the theory and use of energy metrics developed in the Green Radio Project. The talk introduced the new concept of a joint metric based on energy efficiency and data volume efficiency, which when combined explained the behaviour of the frequently used bit/Joule metric used to assess energy efficiency in communication networks. The important contribution is that by itself, the bit/Joule metric is ambiguous as to whether or not savings are obtained through energy reduction or increases in data throughput. The new metric evaluation framework resolves this ambiguity by correctly accounting for energy savings and throughput gains. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://wireless.kth.se/blog/events/wireless-friday-seminar-energy-metrics-figures-merit-radio-acces... |
| Description | Femtocell World Summit 2009 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Increased awareness of the Green Radio project to an international industrial forum. Increased awareness of the Green Radio research programme and the importance of energy efficiency in wireless networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | LTE World Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Raised awareness of the energy saving potential of small cells. Established small cells as a primary solution for increasing LTE radio access network capacity while saving energy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Next Generation Wireless Green Networks Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Raised awareness of the Green Radio project Raised awareness of the Green Radio research programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |