Opportunistic Multihopping for Energy Efficiency: Opportunistic Multi-Hop Cellular Networking for Energy-Efficient Provision of Mobile Delay Tolerant Services

Abstract

Cellular operators are facing considerable capacity and energy-efficiency challenges as cellular data traffic keeps on rising. Several studies have shown that multi-hop celular networks (MCN) could help tackle these challenges through the integration of device to device and cellular communications. This study demonstrates that significant energy-efficiency gains can be achieved when MCN networks jointly exploit opportunistic networking and the traffic delay tolerance characteristic of relevant mobile data services