  High energy efficiency is critical for enabling massive machine-type
communications (MTC) over cellular networks. This work is devoted to energy
consumption modeling, battery lifetime analysis, lifetime-aware scheduling and
transmit power control for massive MTC over cellular networks. We consider a
realistic energy consumption model for MTC and model network battery-lifetime.
Analytic expressions are derived to demonstrate the impact of scheduling on
both the individual and network battery lifetimes. The derived expressions are
subsequently employed in the uplink scheduling and transmit power control for
mixed-priority MTC traffic in order to maximize the network lifetime. Besides
the main solutions, low-complexity solutions with limited feedback requirement
are investigated, and the results are extended to existing LTE networks. Also,
the energy efficiency, spectral efficiency, and network lifetime tradeoffs in
resource provisioning and scheduling for MTC over cellular networks are
investigated. The simulation results show that the proposed solutions can
provide substantial network lifetime improvement and network maintenance cost
reduction
