DOI 10.1007/s11036-011-0316-4 A Survey of Green Mobile Networks: Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract The explosive development of Informa-tion and Communication Technology (ICT) has sig-nificantly enlarged both the energy demands and the CO2 emissions, and consequently contributes to make the energy crisis and global warming problems worse. However, as the main force of the ICT field, the mo-bile networks, are currently focusing on the capacity, variety and stability of the communication services, without paying too much severe concerns on the energ