Dynamic Basestation Antenna Design for Low Energy Networks

A challenge faced by the information and communications technology (ICT) industry is the growing data volume and associated energy consumption. How to both meet a dynamic tra-c demand at a consistently low energy consumption level is of importance from both commercial and climate change perspectives. This paper proposes a dynamic basestation concept that allows the number of active sectors to be adjusted in accordance with the tra-c load. This is achieved through a novel switchable antenna design that can adjust the azimuth beam-width by using a tuneable re∞ector. Simulation and theoretical results show that the dynamic basestation can reduce the total operational energy of a cellular network by a peak of 75% and a mean of 38%.

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