Accurately assessing EMF exposure from 5G
This white paper provides information related to human exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF) from the base stations in the new 5G networks and describes
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 .
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.
The main factor behind this increase in 5G power consumption is the high power usage of the active antenna unit (AAU). Under a full workload, a single station uses nearly 3700W. This necessitates a number of updates to existing networks, such as more powerful supplies and increased performance output from supporting facilities.
A 5G base station is mainly composed of the baseband unit (BBU) and the AAU — in 4G terms, the AAU is the remote radio unit (RRU) plus antenna. The role of the BBU is to handle baseband digital signal processing, while the AAU converts the baseband digital signal into an analog signal, and then modulates it into a high-frequency radio signal.
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.
Emerging use cases and devices demand higher capacity from today's mobile networks, leading to increasingly dense network deployments. In this post, we explore the energy saving features of 5G New Radio and how this enables operators to build denser networks, meet performance demands and maintain low 5G energy consumption.

This white paper provides information related to human exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF) from the base stations in the new 5G networks and describes
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