Energy Management of Base Station in 5G and B5G: Revisited
The popularity of 5G enabled services are gaining momentum across the globe. It is not only about the high data rate offered by the 5G but also its capability to accommodate
That's almost a threefold increase compared to 4G (5). One 5G base station is estimated to consume about as much power as 73 households (6), and 3x as much as the previous generation of base stations (5), (7).
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.
Data shows the power of the BBU is relatively stable and is affected very little by the workload, while AAU is opposite, with power consumption growing as the load increases. With S111 configuration and 100% load, the power consumption of a single station can even reach 3852.5W.
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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.
The 5G NR standard has been designed based on the knowledge of the typical traffic activity in radio networks as well as the need to support sleep states in radio network equipment. By putting the base station into a sleep state when there is no traffic to serve i.e. switching off hardware components, it will consume less energy.

The popularity of 5G enabled services are gaining momentum across the globe. It is not only about the high data rate offered by the 5G but also its capability to accommodate
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One 5G base station is estimated to consume about as much power as 73 households (6), and 3x as much as the previous generation of base stations
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Conclusion Each type of 5G NR base station plays a distinct and crucial role in building a reliable, high-performance 5G network. From wide
Base station resources are generally unused 75 - 90% of the time, even in highly loaded networks. 5G can make better use of power-saving techniques in the base station part,
Facebook Twitter Linkedin The two figures above show the actual power consumption test results of 5G base stations from different manufacturers,
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The power consumption of the 5G base station mainly comes from the AU module processing and conversion and high power-consuming high
The power consumption of the 5G base station mainly comes from the AU module processing and conversion and high power-consuming high
AAU 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
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