Analysis of wireless transceiver power tradeoffs for green communications
The energy optimisation problem of wireless communications as a power consumption tradeoff between the transmitter and receiver is considered. The goal is finding the right balance between the transmission power and the amount of digital signal processing at the receiver. The problem then consists of deriving the optimal signal-to-noise ratio. Receiver cost functions from real implementations are defined and the constrained optimisation problem for single and multiuser links is solved. The numerical analysis shows that there is an optimal ratio between transmission power and signal processing which can lead to a 30% power reduction for noise limited systems.