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(1) Incorporation of Communication Caching Technology: The model includes communication caching technology, which fully leverages the delay-tolerant characteristics of communication flows, further enabling energy saving in 5 G base stations.
References (Israr et al., 2022, Prasad et al., 2017) indicate that the energy consumption of 5 G base stations is related to the number of communication users and services within the coverage area of the base station, and they use dynamic energy consumption coefficients to represent this relationship.
1. Introduction In recent years, with the widespread deployment of 5 G technology, global communication data traffic has experienced rapid growth, leading to an increase in the construction and operational scale of communication base stations (Dangi et al., 2021, Ahmad et al., 2024).
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).
The Small Cell Forum predicts the installed base of small cells to reach 70.2 million in 2025 and the total installed base of 5G or multimode small cells in 2025 to be 13.1 million. “A 5G base station is generally expected to consume roughly three times as much power as a 4G base station.
When base stations, data centers and devices are added together, telecommunications will consume more than 20% of the world's electricity by 2025, says Huawei analyst Dr. Anders Andrae. Currently, it is about 11% (8). Numerous reports (9) describe the exponentially increasing energy consumption of 5G and Internet of Things applications.
Simulation results reveal that more than 50% of the energy is consumed by the computation power at 5G small cell BS's. Moreover, the computation power of 5G small cell BS can approach 800 watt when the massive MIMO (e.g., 128 antennas) is deployed to transmit high volume traffic.
