This book introduces wireless traffic steering as a paradigm to realize green communication in multi-tier heterogeneous cellular networks. This book presents an energy-aware traffic steering method for networks with energy harvesting, which optimizes the traffic allocated to each cell based on the renewable energy status.
Introduction.- Literature Review on Green Communications.- Dynamic Network Planning with Intra-Tier Traffic Steering.- Dynamic Network Planning with Inter-Tier Traffic Steering.- Inter-Tier Traffic Steering with Renewable Energy Harvesting.- Concluding Remarks.