Wireless Network Energy Efficiency, Savings, and Optimization

People: ​Ivan Seskar, N. K. Shankaranarayanan, Sarat Puthenpura, Alex Stancu, Zhuohuan Li, Narayan Mandayam

Green networks, wireless network energy efficiency and energy savings are very active areas of research and development. Energy Efficiency of Open RAN networks has been identified as a top priority by mobile network operators, and the Energy Savings Use Case and Features are a top priority and area of intense activity in the O-RAN Alliance.

The page on WirelessEnergyEfficiencyResearch provides detail on wireless energy efficiency research and the research activities at Winlab.

WINLAB has ​received funding for a research project on "5G Energy Efficiency – Metrics, Models, and System Tests" to develop testing methods that assess the energy consumption and efficiency of individual 5G network components and end-to-end Open RAN architectures. For details on the NTIA Energy Efficiency project objectives and workplan, please see NTIA Energy Efficiency Test R&D Project .