A New Relation Between Energy Efficiency and Spectral Efficiency in Wireless Communications Systems

When designing wireless communication systems (WCS), the spectral efficiency (SE) has been the main design performance metric. Recently, the energy efficiency (EE) is attracting a huge interest due to the massive deployment of power limited WCS such as IoT devices, and stringent environmental concerns. For this reason, many works in the literature focused on optimizing the EE and highlighted the EE-SE relationship as a trade-off (meaning that increasing one decreases the other). In this article, after introducing the EE metric, we highlight a new perspective of the EE-SE relationship based on energy-efficient power control. In particular, we give insights about the EE-based performance of various transmission technologies and its impact on 5G future design. Via numerical results, we show that the corresponding power scheme allows an increase of both the SE and EE with no trade-off. Finally, we present relevant open research problems.

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