Abstract
Recently, the concern about energy efficiency in wireless communications has been growing rapidly. Manufacturers and researchers have developed innovative solutions, highlighting the benefits in reducing operational expenditures (OPEX) and carbon footprint. Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) systems, like Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA), have been designed to provide voice and data services to professional users. The energy consumption is one of the critical aspects of PMR broadband solutions and a major constraint for PMR services. The future convergence of PMR to the LTE system introduces a new topic in the research discussion about the energy efficiency of wireless systems. This paper focuses on the feasibility of energy efficient solutions for current and potentially future PMR networks, by providing a mathematical formulation of power consumption in TETRA base stations and assessing possible business models and energy saving solutions for enhanced mission-critical operations. The energy efficiency evaluation has been performed by taking into account the traffic load of a deployed TETRA regional network: in the considered network scenario with 150 base stations, significant OPEX savings up to 70 thousand Euros per year of operation are achieved. Moreover, the proposed solutions allow for saving more than 1 ton of CO 2 per year.
Highlights
Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) systems represent a subset of mobile communications networks which are designed for mission critical communications
This paper focuses on the feasibility of energy efficient solutions for current and potentially future PMR networks, by providing a mathematical formulation of power consumption in Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA)
The target requirements of the provided service are quite different than the public case, in terms of system availability, security, resilience and reliability that are typical of mission critical communications [1]
Summary
Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) systems represent a subset of mobile communications networks which are designed for mission critical communications. In order to evaluate the energy impact of such a system, a TETRA/TEDS power consumption model is introduced, as well as some energy saving radio resource management techniques developed for commercial wireless systems. An evaluation of the energy performance of an optimized TETRA/TEDS system has been done, taking into account the potential energy efficiency gain, due to hardware improvements and radio resource management flexibility that will be allowed by the transition to an LTE infrastructure.
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