From 2020 to 2022, for 5G base stations participating in market transactions, if their actually paid electricity price exceeds the target price of 0.35 yuan per kilowatt-hour, the amount over the
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Table 2. Power consumption of four types of equipment in each period. The pricing method of flat electricity price is that the average price of 0.675 yuan/kWh is adopted at any time. The equipment types in the base station room include: transmission equipment (PTN, etc.), communication equipment (BBU, RRU, AAU, etc.), and air conditioner.
If the working power of the first type electrical equipment (BBU, PTN, etc.) in a base station is k (kW), then the first type equipment in a single base station will be charged at the flat pricing and at peak-valley pricing are:
Statistics show that the number of four types of base stations are 20, 24, 11 and 24, with PUE mean values of 1.63, 1.45, 1.47 and 1.57 respectively. There is no obvious difference in PUE of all types of base stations throughout the year.
The explosive growth of mobile data traffic has resulted in a significant increase in the energy consumption of 5G base stations (BSs).
1. Introduction 5G base station (BS), as an important electrical load, has been growing rapidly in the number and density to cope with the exponential growth of mobile data traffic . It is predicted that by 2025, there will be about 13.1 million BSs in the world, and the BS energy consumption will reach 200 billion kWh .
Therefore, the problem can be formulated as a minimal 5G BS energy consumption optimization model, i.e., the energy consumption reduced by reasonably switching off the idle or lightly loaded BSs and reasonably associate UEs with BSs (i.e., the BS switching state and BS-UE association state scheme).
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