Environmental Friendly Mobile Radio Networks: Approaches of the European OPERA-Net 2 Project

Mika Lasanen (1) , Marc Aubrée (2) , Cédric Cassan (3) , Alberto Conte (2) , Jérôme David (4) , Salaheddine El Ayoubi (2) , Timo Galkin (1) , Vlad Grigore (1) , Stéphane Le Masson (2) , Jonathan Lees (5) , Hasna Louahlia-Gualous (2) , Didier Marquet (2) , Zul Mokhti (5) , Loutfi Nuaymi (6, 7) , Hans-Otto Scheck (8) , Lauri Smalen (8)

1 VTT - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
2 Orange Labs [Issy les Moulineaux]
3 Freescale Semiconducteurs SAS - RF Division
4 Thomson Broadcast
5 Centre for High Frequency Engineering
6 RSM - Département Réseaux, Sécurité et Multimédia
7 REOP - Réseaux d'opérateurs
8 NSN - Nokia Siemens Networks

Reducing the overall environmental impact of mobile radio networks is a central factor in achieving improved mobile services and enabling a growing telecommunications industry in emerging markets. The OPERA-Net-2 (Optimising Power Efficiency in Mobile Radio Networks 2) project concentrates on this challenge, addressing both energy and material efficiencies of 3G, 4G and heterogeneous networks, while also considering the use of renewable energy sources. This paper presents an insight into the project after its first year and discusses research trends for in 'green networking' for the future.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Mika Lasanen, Marc Aubrée, Cédric Cassan, Alberto Conte, Jérôme David, et al.. Environmental Friendly Mobile Radio Networks: Approaches of the European OPERA-Net 2 Project. ICT 2013 : International Conference on Telecommunications, May 2013, Casablanca, Morocco. ⟨hal-00924482⟩