How much energy is needed to run a wireless network?

By G. Auer, V. Giannini, Claude Desset, István Gódor, P. Skillermark, M. Olsson, Muhammad Ali Imran, Dario Sabella, M. J. González, O. Blume and 1 more. IEEE wireless communications, 2011

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A Survey of Energy-Efficient Techniques for 5G Networks and Challenges Ahead (2016, background): “In the literature it is usually assumed that the transmit ampliﬁers operate in the linear region, and that the static hardware energy is independent of the radiated energy [4], [13], [18]–[20].”
A deep reinforcement learning based framework for power-efficient resource allocation in cloud RANs (2017, background): “In a cellular network, as shown in [3], the relationship between transmit power and BS power consumption is nearly a linear function, which is also applicable to RRHs.”
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