Are green cellular base stations sustainable?
This study presents an overview of sustainable and green cellular base stations (BSs), which account for most of the energy consumed in cellular networks. We review the architecture of the BS and the power consumption model, and then summarize the trends in green cellular network research over the past decade.
How do cellular base stations reshape non-uniform energy supplies and energy demands?
These strategies use bidirectional energy flow to reshape the non-uniform energy supplies and energy demands over mobile networks. A joint spectrum and energy sharing method is presented in Guo et al. (2014b) between cellular base stations to minimize the OPEX.
How do cellular network operators shift to green practices?
Cellular network operators attempt to shift toward green practices using two main approaches. The first approach uses energy-efficient hardware to reduce the energy consumption of BSs at the equipment level and adopts economic power sources to feed these stations.
Why is the energy consumption of a base station different at different times?
Since the energy consumption of the base station relies on the traffic load, therefore, it may be different at different time instants. The renewable energy utilization is optimized by balancing power consumption between base stations with the availability of RE to support the traffic demand from all users.
How can network densification improve the capacity of 5G networks?
Network densification, one of the key technologies in 5G, can significantly improve the network capacity through the installation of additional cellular small cell base stations (SCBSs) forming small cell networks (SCNs) using the spectrum reuse policy to meet the increasing demand (Samarakoon et al., 2016a).
Why do we switch off base stations during off-peak periods?
During off-peak periods, the radio access network will be underutilized, which will lead to inefficient use of network resources, so when traffic profile is low, sleep modes dynamically switch off some of the BS. Switching off base stations helps to curb the extra energy utilized by the BS components.
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