BOOK REVIEW
5G Green Mobile Communication Networks
Guoqiang Mao
University of Technology Sydney,Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
With the popularization of wireless mul-
timedia communications, the wireless traffic
is predicated to be increased more than 1000
time in the next decade. Some new technol-
ogies, e.g., massive multi-input multi-output
antennas, millimeter wave and small cell
networks are developed to support high speed
wireless transmission in future fifth generation
(5G) mobile communication systems. On the
other hand, it is a great challenge how to face
the quick growth of energy consumption in
5G mobile communication networks due to
the massive wireless traffic. However, detailed
investigation of the energy efficiency of 5G
mobile communication networks from three
aspects of theory models, technology develop-
ments and applications is surprisingly rare in
the open literature. Fortunately, the scholarly
writing, 5G Green mobile communication
networks, published by Publishing House of
Electronics Industry in November 2016, points
out the directions and research advance of 5G
green mobile communication networks. The
authors are Prof. Xiaohu Ge from Huazhong
University Science and Technology, Prof.
Chin-Feng Lai from National Chung Cheng
University and Dr. Wuxiong Zhang from
Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and In-
formation technology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences. Prof. Ge is also an editor of IEEE
Transaction on Green Communications and
Networking. Prof. Lai is an associate edi-
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tor-in-chief for the journal of Internet Technol-
ogy. Dr. Zhang is the vice director of Key Lab
of Wireless Sensor Network and Communica-
tion.
Starting with the fundament knowledge
of green communications, the book first de-
scribes the theory basis of energy efficiency
in 5G mobile communication networks and
its key issues. Secondly, some new wireless
transmission technologies used for saving the
energy consumption are presented for 5G mo-
bile communication networks. Thirdly, how
to save the energy consumption of wireless
multimedia communications is measured and
tested in applications of 5G mobile commu-
nication networks. Prof. Ge chairs the IEEE
Communications Society 5G Mobile Wireless
Internet Emerging Technologies Subcommit-
tee, which focuses on promoting the develop-
ment of 5G mobile communication technolo-
gies. The authors of this book play an active
role on 5G green communication technologies
in both IEEE ComSoc and industrialization.
Prof. Xiaohu Ge have founded the China
International Joint Research Center of Green
Communications and Networking, which is
the China national platform of green commu-
nications and networking. Based on their stud-
ies on the theory of energy efficiency of 5G
mobile communication networks, the optimi-
zation models of base stations (BSs) deploy-
ment have been analyzed with the coverage
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size of BSs and density of BSs. Moreover, the
impact of the spatial distribution of wireless
channels and traffic on the energy efficiency
of mobile communication networks is inves-
tigated. The maximum energy efficiency limit
is derived as a guideline for designing future
5G mobile communication networks. Fur-
thermore, the 5G wireless backhaul network
architecture is presented for discussing the en-
ergy efficiency of cellular networks in the total
lifetime of productions. In the end, some basic
theory issues and challenges of 5G mobile
communication networks is discussed to pro-
mote the future research in 5G green mobile
communication networks.
Prof. Chin-Feng Lai have founded the
Industrial Technology Research Institute
for quality of experience (QoE) multimedia
streaming service in embedded platforms.
In the application part of the book, Android
is ported on the PAC Duo system on chip
(SoC) heterogeneous platform made by the
Industrial Technology Research Institute as
the basic hardware platform. At the same
time, the dual digital single processor (DSP)
H.264 decode function is integrated into Stage
Fright multimedia framework for achieving
audio and video synchronization in 5G mobile
communication networks. To provide a better
quality of streaming service by considering
hardware constriction, compute ability and 5G
mobile communication networks bandwidth, a
dynamically streaming adjustment scheme is
designed. Moreover, a buffer-based bandwidth
prediction and strategic decision model is de-
signed for QoE-based MPEG dynamic adap-
tive streaming over HTTP (DASH). According
to experimental result, the proposed scheme
can improve 20% satisfaction of watching
video streaming in 5G mobile communication
networks.
Dr. Wuxiong Zhang and his group have
focused on traffic flow modeling and wireless
resource management for mobile communi-
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cation networks. Based on real traffic data
from China Telecom, they analyzed multi-cell
multi-user traffic flow models, and then pro-
posed a green resource allocation method with
Bregman inexact excessive gap, combining
interference model and BSs location distribu-
tions. Furthermore, a novel energy efficiency
metric, considering the energy efficiency of
both mobile terminals and BSs, is presented to
systematically study the impact of the deploy-
ment of low power BSs and the efficiency of
the proposed resource management method on
mobile communication networks.
The book is not only well arranged, but
also relative simple to understand. Therefore,
the book is equally suitable for both engineers
who are currently learning the 5G green com-
munication technologies and those who are
developing the energy efficiency optimization
technologies for 5G mobile communication
networks. It is also suitable as a textbook for
senior undergraduates and graduates in the
topic of wireless communication engineering.
Biographies
Guoqiang Mao, is currently a chair professor of
Wireless Networking and Director of Center for
Real-time Information Networks, the University of
Technology Sydney. The Center is among the largest
university research centers in Australia in the field
of wireless communications and networking. He has
published about 200 papers in international con-
ferences and journals, which have been cited more
than 4000 times. He is an editor of the IEEE Trans-
actions on Wireless Communications (since 2014),
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (since
2010) and received Top Editor award for outstanding
contributions to the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology in 2011, 2014 and 2015. He is a co-chair
of IEEE Intelligent Transport Systems Society Tech-
nical Committee on Communication Networks. He
has served as a chair, co-chair and TPC member in
a large number of international conferences. His re-
search interest includes intelligent transport systems,
applied graph theory and its applications in telecom-
munications, Internet of Things, wireless sensor net-
works, wireless localization techniques and network
performance analysis.
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