Pre-Grant Signaling for Energy-Efficient 5G and Beyond Mobile Devices: Method and Analysis.

Due to the severely limited battery capacities, the energy efficiency of mobile devices plays an important role in their usability. In general, the cellular subsystem is one of the major contributors to the energy consumption of a mobile device, thus improving its energy efficiency is of paramount importance. In this paper, a new concept of pre-grant message together with associated control plane ...