Paper Info
Title
Towards an Energy Management Framework for Carrier-Grade Wireless Back-Haul Networks
Abstract
Rural regions all over the world often suffer from similar problems in terms of (broadband) connectivity to communication infrastructures. Sparsely populated areas and large distances render desirable roll out of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems economically unfeasible for operators. Particularly in rural regions in developing or emerging areas such as Africa with a lack of communication infrastructure often also the lack of a stable power grid comes along which obviously imposes another challenge on any ICT system considered to be deployed. Energy-saving nodes allowing using batteries and e.g. solar panels are as much essential as protocols and mechanisms which can deal with more frequent node failures and are, though, able to provide a reliable network. In this paper we first show that our Wireless Back-haul (WiBACK) architecture is capable of providing carrier-grade services using cost-effective 'off-the-shelf' hardware. We than identify the limitations of WiBACK with respect to energy-awareness of the system and draft a concept presenting the required enhancements in the architecture to become energy-aware.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICCCN.2012.6289228
Computer Communications and Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
broadband networks,protocols,telecommunication network management,telecommunication network reliability,wireless mesh networks,Africa,ICT systems,Information and Communication Technology systems,MR-WMN,WiBACK architecture,broadband connectivity,carrier-grade wireless back-haul networks,energy management framework,energy-awareness,energy-saving nodes,multiradio-wireless mesh networks,node failures,power grid,protocols,reliable network,rural regions,solar panels
Wireless network,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Telecommunications,Backhaul (telecommunications),Computer science,Computer network,Wireless WAN,Carrier grade,Wireless mesh network,Municipal wireless network,Broadband networks
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1095-2055
978-1-4673-1543-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Niephaus100.34
M. Kretschmer2539.39