Power consumption of 5G base stations in Rwanda

Because it is estimated that in 5G, the base station's density is expected to exceed 40–50 BSs/ Km 2 . The energy consumption of the 5G network is driving attention and many world-leading network operators have launched alerts about the increased power consumption of the 5G mobile infrastructure .

This restricts the potential use of the power models, as their validity and accuracy remain unclear. Future work includes the further development of the power consumption models to form a unified evaluation framework that enables the quantification and optimization of energy consumption and energy efficiency of 5G networks.

Although the absolute value of the power consumption of 5G base stations is increasing, their energy efficiency ratio is much lower than that of 4G stations. In other words, with the same power consumption, the network capacity of 5G will be as dozens of times larger than 4G, so the power consumption per bit is sharply reduced.

Energy consumption growth of the fifth-generation (5G) mobile network infrastructure can be significant due to the increased traffic demand for a massive number of end-users with increasing traffic volume, user density, and data rate.

Abstract—The fifth generation of the Radio Access Network (RAN) has brought new services, technologies, and paradigms with the corresponding societal benefits. However, the energy consumption of 5G networks is today a concern.

Various 5G enabled scenarios, such as, the impact of traffic load variations, the number of antennas of HPN, variation in bandwidth, and density of LPNs in mm-wave communication is considered to investigate the power requirements and network power efficiency of these radio access architectures to propose the energy-efficient radio access network.