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Theoretical Foundations of Waste Factor and Waste Figure with Applications to Fixed Wireless Access and Relay Systems

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Pith's one-line read Inserting the Waste Factor into the Shannon energy-per-bit limit yields closed-form rules for when relay- or access-point-assisted paths beat direct links, from distances, gains, waste factors, and traffic mix.

desk verdict Genuinely new FWA traffic-weighted decision rule, but Eq. (66) silently assumes PNP=0 and most of the rest is a clean repackaging of Consumption Factor; worth refereeing after the caveats are made explicit. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.08414 v2 pith:VSE43G2O submitted 2025-06-10 eess.SY cs.SY

Nurullah Sevim , Mostafa Ibrahim , Sabit Ekin , Theodore S. Rappaport This is my paper
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The reading

The paper's goal is to fold device-level inefficiency into the most basic limit in communication theory: the minimum energy needed to send one bit. By inserting the Waste Factor $W$ — the ratio of total path power to delivered signal power — into the Consumption Factor and taking Shannon's infinite-bandwidth limit, the authors obtain $E_{bc} = P_{NP}/C + \ln(2)N_0 W$, a closed-form bit-energy cost that reduces to Shannon's limit when nothing is wasted. They then compare this cost for a direct link against a relay-assisted path and derive a decision rule: the relay wins exactly when $d_3^\alpha$ exceeds a gain- and waste-weighted sum of the two hop distances. The same machinery, with uplink/downlink traffic proportions, produces a Fixed Wireless Access rule that tells an operator when routing through an access point uses less energy than a direct base-station link. If the rules hold, energy-aware placement and routing become a computation on distances, gains, and waste factors instead of a simulation campaign.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the cascade waste factor $W = 1 + \sum_{k=1}^N (W_k - 1)/\prod_{i=k+1}^N G_i$, a noise-figure-style identity that accumulates per-stage waste with gains in the denominator, so stages early in the chain matter only as much as the later gain lets them. The channel is admitted into the cascade as a passive attenuator with $W_{ch} = 1/G_{ch}$, which is what lets the whole network — transmitters, receivers, free space, relays — be scored by one number. Feeding $W$ into the Consumption Factor $CF = B\log_2(1+SNR)/(P_{NP} + SNR_{\min}P_{\text{noise}}W)$ and taking $B \to \infty$ produces the bit-energy formula $E_{bc} = P_{NP}/C + \ln(2)N_0 W$, and comparing $E_{bc}$ for one-hop versus two-hop paths, under the lossy-link approximation $W \approx W_{TX}/(G_{RX}G_{ch})$, is what turns energy efficiency into the geometric inequalities of Eqs. (54) and (66).

What would settle it

On a testbed with measured transmitter waste factors and receiver gains, place the relay (or access point) so that $d_3^\alpha$ sits just below and just above the Eq. (66) threshold for a fixed traffic mix, measure the energy per bit of direct and assisted paths, and check that the crossover falls at the predicted boundary; a systematic offset that tracks the access point's non-path power share would show the $P_{NP} = 0$ simplification, not the framework, is doing the work.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that a cascaded system's wasted power can be summarized by one scalar per stage — $W_k$, the ratio of path power consumed to signal power delivered — combined by the cascade identity $W = 1 + \sum (W_k - 1)/\prod G_i$, with the wireless channel itself treated as a passive stage whose waste is $W_{ch} = 1/G_{ch}$. Substituting this into the Consumption Factor and taking the wideband Shannon limit yields the paper's bit-energy formula $E_{bc} = P_{NP}/C + \ln(2)N_0 W$, an additive generalization of Shannon's energy-per-bit limit. Approximating the link waste factor by $W_{TX}/(G_{RX}G_{ch})$ for lossy links, the comparison of direct versus two-hop energy per bit collapses to the distance-only rule $d_3^\alpha > (G_{RX,\text{sink}}/G_{RX,\text{relay}}) d_1^\alpha + (W_{TX,\text{relay}}/W_{TX,\text{source}}) d_2^\alpha$, so a relay node is worthwhile exactly when the direct distance, raised to the path-loss exponent, exceeds a weighted sum of the hop distances. Specializing the same comparison to Fixed Wireless Access with traffic fractions $\rho_u$ and $\rho_d$ yields Eq. (66), where the coefficients become gain- and waste-weighted averages over uplink and downlink, and the $\alpha = 2$ case is an ellipse of advantageous access-point positions that shrinks or grows with the traffic mix. Passive reflective intelligent surfaces fit as a special case of the relay rule, since a passive loss-only stage is exactly the channel-like form $W_{ch} = 1/G_{ch}$.

Load-bearing premise

The argument assumes the non-path power $P_{NP}$ and the channel capacity $C$ are the same on the direct, first-hop, and second-hop links, and the clean decision rules also assume $P_{NP}$ is zero — if real links differ in idle power or capacity, or if an access point burns significant non-path power, the thresholds shift and the rules are only approximate.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Relay placement reduces to a distance test: the assisted path uses less energy per bit precisely when $d_3^\alpha$ exceeds $(G_{RX,\text{sink}}/G_{RX,\text{relay}}) d_1^\alpha + (W_{TX,\text{relay}}/W_{TX,\text{source}}) d_2^\alpha$, and for free-space loss ($\alpha = 2$) the favorable region is the interior of an ellipse.
  • In Fixed Wireless Access, the same comparison carries traffic weights: Eq. (66) gives an operator a direct formula for whether a UE-to-BS link should route through an access point, with uplink-heavy and downlink-heavy traffic as two structurally identical extreme cases.
  • Because $W$ can be measured from output signal power and total stage power draw, the decision rules can be evaluated from power/gain telemetry without tracking per-user traffic logs.
  • Design priorities follow from the cascade structure: high-gain receivers and efficient power amplifiers dominate the end-to-end waste, so improving those stages buys the largest energy-per-bit reduction.
  • Passive RIS-assisted links inherit the relay decision rule, since a passive RIS is just a loss-only cascade stage; active RIS designs require the model to include local power consumption.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Reading the supplementary derivation alongside the main text suggests that retaining the non-path term yields an exact version of Eq. (66) whose extra $P_{NP}$-dependent term shrinks the access-point-favorable region, which is the correction a deployment with idle or processing power at the access point should apply.
  • The same ratio-test logic composes hop by hop: since $W$ is a cascade scalar, a multi-hop route's total energy per bit is a sum of per-hop terms, so ranking routes in mesh or ad hoc networks could be done with the same closed-form comparison rather than simulation.
  • A natural testable extension is to treat Eq. (66) as a prediction of the measured energy-per-bit crossover in a real FWA deployment; whether the boundary holds under measured $P_{NP}$ at the access point would separate the framework's core claim from its zero-overhead simplification.
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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper extends the Waste Factor (W) framework to energy-per-bit analysis, re-derives the Consumption Factor in terms of W, and obtains closed-form decision rules for when relay-assisted (or access-point-assisted) transmission is more energy-efficient than direct transmission for relay systems and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). The cascade algebra, the wideband energy-per-bit limit, and the relay inequality (Eqs. 47–54) are internally consistent. The FWA extension (Eq. 66) and its geometric interpretation are the main claimed contributions.

Significance. If the derivations are correct, Eq. (66) is a useful, parameter-light, traffic-aware decision rule for FWA path selection, and the relay ellipse (Eq. 55) gives intuitive design insight. The paper's strength is that the algebra is transparent, parameter-free, and reproducible: there are no fitted parameters and no simulation claims. However, two load-bearing issues—the silent PNP=0 assumption in the FWA rule and the reciprocal coefficients in Eq. (55)—currently prevent the results from being used as stated.

major comments (3)
  1. [§2.3, Eq. (55)] The displayed FWA decision rule (66) drops the non-path power term that is present in the Supplementary derivation. Specifically, moving from Supplementary Eq. (26) to Eq. (27) removes the term PNP(ρu+ρd)/(N0 C ln 2) from the numerator of the right-hand side. The main text states before Eq. (65) that non-path power and capacities are equal across links, but it never states PNP=0 for the FWA rule. The exact condition is d3^α > [ PNP(ρu+ρd)/(N0 C ln 2) + d1^α (ρu WTX,UE/GRX,AP + ρd WTX,BS/GRX,AP) + d2^α (ρu WTX,AP/GRX,BS + ρd WTX,AP/GRX,UE) ] / [ ρu WTX,UE/GRX,BS + ρd WTX,BS/GRX,UE ]. Since non-path power often dominates in CPE and base-station hardware, the omitted term can be significant. The authors should either state explicitly that Eq. (66) assumes PNP=0, matching the caveat used for Eq. (54), or retain the full term in the main-text rule.
  2. [§2.4, Eqs. (65)–(69)] Eq. (55) is inconsistent with Eq. (54). From Eq. (54), dividing by d3^α gives 1 > (GRX,sink/GRX,relay)(d1/d3)^2 + (WTX,relay/WTX,source)(d2/d3)^2. Eq. (55) instead gives the reciprocals, (GRX,relay/GRX,sink) and (WTX,source/WTX,relay). This reverses the design intuition: a high-gain relay receiver should enlarge the relay-favorable region, but the printed Eq. (55) would shrink it. Figure 4 is said to be based on Eq. (55), so the figure and Eq. (55) need to be corrected, and the authors should verify that Figures 5–7 (which are said to come from Eq. (54)) were not generated using the reciprocal form.
  3. [§2.4] The FWA section does not carry the same caveat that the relay section carries after Eq. (54). The relay section explicitly states that the derivation assumes equal PNP and equal C and that relaxing these is future work; the FWA section asserts the same equal-PNP/C assumption before Eq. (65) but does not state the additional PNP=0 limit used to obtain Eq. (66), nor does it warn that unequal PNP (or unequal capacity) across UE, AP, and BS links invalidates the rule. In particular, Figure 10 varies WTX,BS and WTX,UE while keeping the equal-PNP/C assumption implicit, and the later Discussion does not revisit this for the FWA rule. The authors should add an explicit limitations statement for Eqs. (66)–(69) parallel to the one given for the relay rule.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§2.2, Eq. (33)] In the contribution list, 'Extending W aste F actor Analysis' contains extra spaces; please fix the typo.
  2. [§2.4, Eq. (65)] The displayed Eq. (33) is typeset in a way that makes the algebraic steps hard to follow; a cleaner two-line derivation would help readers see that Ebc = PNP/C + ln(2)N0 W is obtained after using Eb/N0 = ln 2.
  3. [Supplementary Information] Since ρu+ρd=1, the factors (ρu+ρd) in Eq. (65) and in the Supplementary derivation could be simplified; leaving them in makes the expression look heavier than needed.
  4. [§2.5, Eq. (70)] The phrase 'Starting from Eq. (17)' in the derivation of Eq. (66) is confusing because Eq. (17) in the main text is a different expression; please refer to the main-text equation numbers explicitly or re-label the supplementary equations.
  5. [§2.5] The granular cascade in Eq. (70) has an indexing pattern that puts W_rx after W_proc, which is the reverse of the order listed in Figure 11; please check that the indices match the figure.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation found; the FWA rule is derived by stated algebra, with a non-circular caveat about a silently dropped PNP term.

full rationale

We reviewed the derivation chain from W = Ppath/PS (Eq. 2) through the cascade formula (Eqs. 9-11), the energy-per-bit expression Ebc = PNP/C + ln(2) N0 W (Eq. 33), the relay inequality (Eqs. 47-54), and the FWA inequality (Eqs. 60-66). All are closed-form algebraic manipulations of the stated definitions; no parameter is fitted to a dataset and then renamed as a prediction. The paper relies on prior work [6], [13] for the original definitions of W and the Consumption Factor, but it re-derives the cascade and energy-per-bit formulas from those definitions rather than importing an unproved uniqueness or existence result. The self-citations are therefore context, not load-bearing circular justification. The one caveat worth recording is that the published Eq. (66) drops the PNP(ρu+ρd)/(N0 C ln 2) term that appears in the full derivation's Supplementary Eq. (26); this is a hidden PNP=0 simplification (or algebraic omission), which is a scope/accuracy concern about the FWA rule, not a circularity in the derivation chain. Accordingly, no step reduces to its own input by construction, and the circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 7 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new physical entities and fits no free parameters to data. Its central rules depend on normalizing the path-loss constant k to 1, assuming equal non-path power and capacity across links, and setting non-path power to zero. These are stated or implicit modeling choices rather than fitted quantities.

free parameters (1)
  • k (path-loss normalization constant) = 1
    Set to 1 after Eq. (50); all decision rules (Eqs. 54, 66) assume this normalization, which rescales distances.
assumptions (7)
  • domain assumption Cascade waste factor formula W = 1 + sum (Wk-1)/prod Gi
    Eq. (11), adopted from prior work [6,13]; the paper does not re-derive it from first principles beyond the two-stage example.
  • domain assumption Channel modeled as passive cascade node with Wch = 1/Gch
    Eq. (19) from [6]; enables treating the air link as a single waste stage.
  • domain assumption Equal non-path power and capacity across all links (PNP1=PNP2=PNP3=PNP, C1=C2=C3=C)
    Stated in Sections 2.3 and 2.4; required for the closed-form decision rules.
  • ad hoc to paper Zero non-path power (PNP=0) for relay decision rule
    Assumed before Eq. (54) to obtain the clean ellipse condition; silently also used in deriving Eq. (66) without being stated.
  • domain assumption Path loss model Gch = k/d^alpha with k=1
    Used to translate gain inequalities into distance inequalities (Eqs. 40-41, 50-54, 66).
  • standard math AWGN channel and Shannon capacity limit
    Used in Eq. (23) and the wideband limit Eqs. (29)-(32).
  • domain assumption Approximation Wlink approx WTX/(GRX Gch) for GRX Gch << 1
    Eq. (21); underlies the energy-per-bit estimates in relay/FWA sections; fails for high receiver gain or short links.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Theoretical Foundations of Waste Factor and Waste Figure with Applications to Fixed Wireless Access and Relay Systems},
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The exponential rise in energy consumption across wireless communication systems, particularly in anticipation of next-generation wireless systems, necessitates rigorous frameworks for evaluating and optimizing energy efficiency. This paper revisits and expands the concept of the Waste Factor (W), or Waste Figure (WF) in decibel scale, as a unifying metric that captures both utilized and wasted power in cascaded communication systems. Building upon its foundation in system-level power modeling, we integrate the Waste Factor into a refined formulation of the Consumption Factor (CF), the ratio of data rate to total consumed power, linking it directly to Shannon's theoretical limit on energy per bit. This analysis introduces additive energy waste into the classical energy-per-bit derivation through the Waste Factor term. We derive closed-form expressions for energy-per-bit expenditure in both direct and relay-assisted links and develop a decision rule to determine which communication path is more energy efficient under given conditions. While not modeled explicitly, Reflective Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) can be interpreted as a special case of relay-based architectures within this unified formulation, suggesting broader applicability of the Waste Factor framework to emerging 6G use cases. The framework is then extended to a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) scenario, where uplink and downlink asymmetries, traffic directionality, and component inefficiencies are jointly considered to analyze energy-optimal deployment strategies.

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