Power Consumption Measurement Tool for Research on Open 5G and Beyond

This paper proposes a simple and inexpensive test setup that can be used to evaluate, compare and study the power consumption of different testbed configurations. The paper offers a description of the design, including safety considerations and calibration aspects. The proposed test setup has been u...

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Published in2023 IEEE AFRICON pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors Ebrahim, Rozeena, Vilakazi, Mla, Burger, Chris R., Lysko, Albert A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 20.09.2023
Subjects
5G mobile communication
base station
Base stations
Calibration
energy efficiency
power consumption
Power demand
power efficiency
Power measurement
radio access network
RAN
Safety
Servers
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Summary:This paper proposes a simple and inexpensive test setup that can be used to evaluate, compare and study the power consumption of different testbed configurations. The paper offers a description of the design, including safety considerations and calibration aspects. The proposed test setup has been used to experimentally test the power consumption of the fifth-generation (5G) base station component, which has been implemented on an open radio access network (RAN) server. The power consumption is measured for various RAN server operation/function modes. We found that certain modes are more power-hungry and may benefit from further optimisation.
ISSN:2153-0033
DOI:10.1109/AFRICON55910.2023.10293732