Scheduling algorithms for multi-hop radio networks
SIGCOMM '92 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures & protocols
A Survey of Energy Efficient Network Protocols for Wireless Networks
Wireless Networks
Characterizing achievable rates in multi-hop wireless mesh networks with orthogonal channels
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Green WLANs: On-Demand WLAN Infrastructures
Mobile Networks and Applications
A simple analytical model for the energy-efficient activation of access points in dense WLANs
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking
Reducing power consumption in backbone networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Breathe to stay cool: adjusting cell sizes to reduce energy consumption
Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Green networking
Energy savings in wireless access networks through optimized network management
ISWPC'10 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE international conference on Wireless pervasive computing
Cross-layer routing metrics for mesh networks: Current status and research directions
Computer Communications
Engineering wireless mesh networks: joint scheduling, routing, power control, and rate adaptation
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Energy-aware routing in the Cognitive Packet Network
Performance Evaluation
Power Savings in Packet Networks via Optimised Routing
Mobile Networks and Applications
A Survey of Green Mobile Networks: Opportunities and Challenges
Mobile Networks and Applications
Energy Savings in Wireless Mesh Networks in a Time-Variable Context
Mobile Networks and Applications
Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
A survey on wireless mesh networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Throughput and energy-aware routing for 802.11 based mesh networks
Computer Communications
The need for access point power saving in solar powered WLAN mesh networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Energy-efficient wireless mesh infrastructures
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Due to the increasing of energy consumption in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), green computing has recently drawn a lot of attention. However, the application of green networking to Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) has seldom been reported in the literature. In this paper, we propose a new framework for energy management in TDMA-based WMNs to support energy efficient communications. Our proposed framework aims at finding an optimal tradeoff between the achieved network throughput and energy consumption. To do so, we use resource planning through green routing and link scheduling. Specifically, we first propose an Optimal approach, called O-GRLS, by formulating the problem as an integer linear program (ILP). As this problem is known to be NP-hard, we then propose a simple yet efficient Ant Colony-based approach, called AC-GRLS to solve the formulated ILP problem. Through extensive simulations, we show that our green framework is able to achieve significant gains in terms of energy consumption as well as achieved network throughput, compared to the Shortest Path (SP) routing. Specifically, we show that the same performance as SP can be attained with minimum energy consumption. On the other hand, with the same energy cost, our proposed framework enhances the achieved throughput by up to 30% compared to SP routing.