A technical look at 5G energy consumption and performance
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In recent years, many models for base station power con-sumption have been proposed in the literature. The work in proposed a widely used power consumption model, which explicitly shows the linear relationship between the power transmitted by the BS and its consumed power.
Base stations represent the main contributor to the energy consumption of a mobile cellular network. Since traffic load in mobile networks significantly varies during a working or weekend day, it is important to quantify the influence of these variations on the base station power consumption.
Furthermore, the base stations dominate the energy consumption of the radio access network. Therefore, it is reasonable to focus on the power consumption of the base stations first, while other aspects such as virtualization of compute in the 5G core or the energy consumption of user equipment should be considered at a later stage.
The real data in terms of the power consumption and traffic load have been obtained from continuous measurements performed on a fully operated base station site. Measurements show the existence of a direct relationship between base station traffic load and power consumption.
The power consumption of the baseband processing is defined as a constant value in the Auer, Holtkamp, and Piovesan models. In the Holtkamp model, it is scaled linearly with the bandwidth and the number of employed antennas.
The main components are the baseband processing unit, analog frontend, power amplifier, and power supply as well as active cooling. As the main components are common to most of the models, they can be easily combined to form a new model. Most of the base station power models are based on measurements of LTE (4G) hardware or theoretical assumptions.
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For the literature review conducted for this paper, analytic power consumption models for base stations are considered. Subsequently, the identified models are compared.
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Base station power refers to the output power level of base stations, which is defined by specific maximum limits (24 dBm for Local Area base stations and 20 dBm for Home base stations)
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Download: Download high-res image (125KB) Download: Download full-size image Fig. 1. Power consumption of cellular elements of mobile communication, with BS consuming
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