Efficient Joint Operation of Advanced Radio Resource and Topology Management in Energy-Aware 5G Networks

This paper studies interoperability concerns arising from coupling energy-aware radio resource and topology management techniques which are developed to minimise the energy consumption of current and future mobile broadband systems. This paper also proposes an Energy-aware Network Management middleware that harmonises the joint operation of energy-aware radio resource and topology management schemes enhancing the system QoS as well as energy efficiency.