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Most existing work on electromagnetic exposure reduction has focused on developing physical layer techniques and solutions to lower the power received and emitted by the user terminals. In this paper, we propose a novel cross-layer approach for reducing the electromagnetic exposure in LTE network by combining techniques belonging to the link and transport layers, while ensuring an acceptable Quality of Experience of a video application. We propose to categorize the RLC frames into critical and non-critical ones and to decrease the number of retransmissions for non-critical ones. In turn, this will reduce the radiated power, i.e. exposure. We also propose an enhanced 3GPP compliant architecture for accommodating our reduced exposure approach.
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This paper reports a work undertaken in the context of the LEXNET project, which is a project supported by the European Commission in the 7th Framework Program (GA nº318273). Ramón Agüero would also like to thank the Spanish Government for its support through the project “Connectivity as a Service: Access for the Internet of the Future”, COSAIF (TEC2012-38574-C02-01).
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Penhoat, J., Agüero, R., Heliot, F., Tesanovic, M. (2015). Enabling Low Electromagnetic Exposure Multimedia Sessions on an LTE Network with an IP Multimedia Subsystem Control Plane. In: Agüero, R., Zinner, T., Goleva, R., Timm-Giel, A., Tran-Gia, P. (eds) Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2014. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 141. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16292-8_15
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