| Abstract: | With the constant increase in network traffic, wireless operators are finding it more challenging to keep network hardware costs to a minimum. At the same time, the energy cost associated with operating a network has increased proportionally. Therefore, the search for higher network capacity is simultaneously accompanied by the search for a cost‐efficient network deployment. In this paper, we show that a saving in transmitted signal energy can be achieved at the signal design level by deploying very specific signal processing techniques. Using an orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing signal for Long‐Term Evolution networks as an example, we utilize a novel non‐uniform companding quantizer to save a transmitted signal energy. Our results show that by using non‐uniform quantization it is possible to further optimize 4G wireless networks. |
