Total Network Base Station Energy Cost vs. Deployment

Impact of Macrocellular Network Densification on the Capacity, Energy and Cost Efficiency in Dense Urban Environment

“…However, the results in [16] differ with the other studies. The authors in [16] report that large cell deployments are efficient in terms of area power consumption as compared to small cells while the finding of [4], [17] and [18] claim otherwise. The contradictory results reported in the above studies come from differences in the power consumption models utilized in the studies and using different energy efficiency metrics that capture different statistics of the network [19].…”

“…A brief overview of the energy efficiency metrics at different levels of a wireless network/system has been provided in [15]. The impact of cell size on the power consumption has been studied in [4] and [16][17][18] for different deployment strategies. However, the results in [16] differ with the other studies.…”

“…The impact of cell size on the power consumption has been studied in [4] and [16][17][18] for different deployment strategies. However, the results in [16] differ with the other studies. The authors in [16] report that large cell deployments are efficient in terms of area power consumption as compared to small cells while the finding of [4], [17] and [18] claim otherwise.…”

“…The impact of network densification on the energy efficiency in the wireless networks has been investigated in [19]. Unlike the previous studies in [4] and [16][17][18], which fail to take into account the impact of interference and system throughput while evaluating the energy efficiency, the studies in [19] investigate the relation between energy efficiency, area capacity and cell size by taking into consideration both the interference and noise, and takes relates the energy efficiency in terms of system throughput. The paper refines the analytical power consumption model proposed in [11] to include the backhaul power consumption as well which has significant impact when considering dense deployments [20].…”

“…The paper refines the analytical power consumption model proposed in [11] to include the backhaul power consumption as well which has significant impact when considering dense deployments [20]. The studies reported in [15][16][17][18][19] have a common short come, i.e. they all use a simple analytical model that combines the power consumption of components into two or three parameters and hence do not accurately model the influence of each component, within the base station, on the total power consumption.…”