EPC (Energy Performance Contracting), as a mechanism grounded in markets, is important for the energy saving industry. The issue of energy savings benefit allocation in Shared Savings Energy Performance Contracting Projects is one obstacle frustrating the rapid growth of the energy performance contracting mechanism. Currently, studies on this issue primarily adopt the equilibrium principle of g...

Policies to incentivize the adoption of renewable energy sources usually offer little flexibility adapt heterogeneous benefits across locations. We evaluate geographical misallocation solar photovoltaic installations and their relation with uniform nature subsidies. estimate dispersion marginal from production in Germany compute social private optimal reallocations residential keeping total cap...

Cooperative communication achieves diversity through spatially separated cooperating nodes, which are battery powered in most applications. Therefore the energy consumption must be minimized without compromising the quality of service. In this context, we present a novel energy allocation scheme for multiple relay nodes that results in efficient cooperative multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)...

Aiming at the task allocation in multi-target tracking of wireless sensor networks, the discrete particle swarm optimization based on nearest-neighbor is presented to reduce the communication energy consumption between nodes. First, task allocation is initialized with nearest neighbor algorithm. Then the fitness function is compared through change task allocation matrix to achieve task allocati...

Femtocells have attracted growing attention in academia, industry, and standardization forums in recent years. However, most of existing works on femtocell networks are focused on spectrum efficiency and interference mitigation, energy efficiency aspect is neglected. In this paper, we investigate the energy efficient resource allocation of downlink femtocell networks in sparsely and densely dep...

In the last few years the issue of energy-efficient network design has gained increasingly more importance [1], [2], both in academia and in industry. Information and communication technologies (ICT) represent about 2% of the entire world’s energy consumption, and the situation is likely to reach a point where ICT equipments in large cities will require more energy than is actually available [3...