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On The Fundamental Energy Tradeoffs of Geographical Load Balancing
Abbas Kiani, Nirwan Ansari
Geographical load balancing can optimize the utilization of green energy and the cost of electricity by taking the advantages of green and price diversities at geographical dispers…
Towards Hierarchical Mobile Edge Computing: An Auction-Based Profit Maximization Approach
Abbas Kiani, Nirwan Ansari
The multi-tiered concept of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, cloudlets and clouds is facilitating a user-centric IoT. However, in such three tier network, it is still desirable to…
Localization by Fusing a Group of Fingerprints via Multiple Antennas in Indoor Environment
Xiansheng Guo, Nirwan Ansari
Most existing fingerprints-based indoor localization approaches are based on some single fingerprints, such as received signal strength (RSS), channel impulse response (CIR), and s…
Green Cloudlet Network: A Distributed Green Mobile Cloud Network
Xiang Sun, Nirwan Ansari
This article introduces a Green Cloudlet Network (GCN) architecture in the context of mobile cloud computing. The proposed architecture is aimed at providing seamless and low End-t…
Content Caching and Distribution in Smart Grid Enabled Wireless Networks
Xueqing Huang, Nirwan Ansari
To facilitate wireless transmission of multimedia content to mobile users, we propose a content caching and distribution framework for smart grid enabled OFDM networks, where each…