Differences between 3/4/5G base station energy consumption

[mikkokotila]

The source is here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10005276?source=authoralert

I can have a look at making a PR with the key findings in a data YAML file based on it at some point.

[bokelley]

This is awesome! Would be really cool to build the growth rate and annual mix evolution into the calculation, so that as time passes we weight more heavily to 5G.

[github-benjamin-davy]

Regarding mobile base station energy consumption, the UCLouvain has also published really interesting work specifically looking at the Belgium cade:

• Evaluation and projection of 4G and 5G RAN energy footprints: the case of Belgium for 2020–2025 (behind paywall)
• Power consumption evaluation of mobile radio access networks using a bottom-up approach: Modeling 4G networks and prospections of 5G deployment in Belgium

Maybe this can help define consumption factors that would be relevant for Europe even tho I imagine that there could be important differences between countries in terms of infrastructure and deployment rates.