I heard that for the first time, so I looked around and found this paper: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~lierranli/coms6998-7Spring2014/papers/rrclte_mobisys2012.p

I heard that for the first time, so I looked around and found this paper: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~lierranli/coms6998-7Spring2014/papers/rrclte_mobisys2012.pdf http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~lierranli/coms6998-7Spring2014/p... Here the problem seems to be that the base power needed (beta in table 4) is way higher than for wifi. I wonder if the numbers have changed since 2012 though.