Flexible Power Modeling of LTE Base Stations

With the explosion of wireless communications in number of users and data rates, the reduction of network power consumption becomes more and more critical. This is especially true for base stations which represent a dominant share of the total power in cellular networks. In order to study power reduction techniques, a convenient power model is required, providing estimates of the power consumption in different scenarios. This paper proposes such a model, accurate but simple to use. It evaluates the base station power consumption for different types of cells supporting the 3GPP LTE standard. It is flexible enough to enable comparisons between state-of-the-art and advanced configurations, and an easy adaptation to various scenarios. The model is based on a combination of base station components and sub-components as well as power scaling rules as functions of the main system parameters

Metoda badania w skali modelowej systemu trybologicznego pierścień tłokowy - tuleja cylindra silnika spalinowego

Rising technical standards of customers, legal requirements and the trend to minimize maintenance effort raise the thermal, mechanical and tribological loads on components of combustion engines. In this regard, emphasis is laid on improving the piston ring - cylinder liner tribosystem, one with the highest energy losses. An efficient performance has to be guaranteed during its lifetime. Tribological investigations could be carried out on engine test benches, but they are highly cost-intensive and time-consuming. Therefore, a damage-equivalent test methodology was developed with the analogous tribological model, "ring-on-liner". The research was carried out under two characteristic operating conditions. One with a "standard" operating system, modelled in line with ideal lubrication conditions, and the other "extreme abrasive" operating system, typical to a system running on a lubricant contaminated by abrasive particles. To optimize the tribological loading capacity of the cylinder liner, with focus on these two operating conditions, numerous nitride coatings have been investigated. The key aspects being seizure resistance, running-in characteristics and long term wear behaviour.Rosnące wymagania techniczne ze strony odbiorców, wymagania prawne i trend w kierunku minimalizacji wysiłku związanego z konserwacją prowadzą do wzrostu mechanicznych, termicznych i trybologicznych obciążeń elementów silników spalinowych. Z tych względów kładzie się nacisk na poprawę jakości systemu trybologicznego pierścień tłokowy - tuleja cylindra, w którym występują największe straty energii. Wydajna praca tego systemu powinna być zagwarantowana przez cały czas jego życia. Badania trybologiczne można prowadzić na stanowiskach do prób silnikowych, lecz są one bardzo kosztowne i czasochłonne. Z tego względu opracowano metodologię badań, równoważną badaniom niszczącym, przeprowadzanych na analogowym modelu trybologicznym typu "pierścień w tulei". Badania były prowadzone dla dwu charakterystycznych rodzajów warunków roboczych. Pierwszy, "standardowy" system działania, jest modelowany przy założeniu idealnych warunków smarowania; system drugi, z "ekstremalnym ścieraniem", jest typowy dla pracy w warunkach, gdy środek smarny jest zanieczyszczony cząsteczkami ściernymi. Koncentrując się na dwu wymienionych systemach działania, optymalizowano obciążalność trybologiczną tulei cylindra badając różne rodzaje pokryć azotkowych. Aspektami kluczowymi były odporność na zatarcie, charakterystyki docierania i długookresowe charakterystyki zużycia

Efficient Clustering of Cabinets at FttCab

At this moment consumers want an internet connection with 20-50 Mb/s speed and around 100 Mb/s in the near future. Rolling out Fibre to the Curb networks quickly will be the only way for telecom operators in some countries to compete with cable tv operators. This requires a fibre connection to the cabinets. When the telecom operator wants toconnect the cabinets in a ring structure, he has to decide how to divide cabinets over a number of circuits, taking into account a maximum number of customers per circuit. This we call the cabinet clustering problem. In this paper we formulate this problem, present the heuristic approch we developed and show the results of our extensive testing that shows the method is accurate and fast. Finally we demonstrate the method on a real life case

How much energy is needed to run a wireless network?

In order to quantify the energy efficiency of a wireless network, the power consumption of the entire system needs to be captured. In this article, the necessary extensions with respect to existing performance evaluation frameworks are discussed. The most important addenda of the proposed energy efficiency evaluation framework (E3F) are a sophisticated power model for various base station types, as well as large-scale long-term traffic models. The BS power model maps the RF output power radiated at the antenna elements to the total supply power of a BS site. The proposed traffic model emulates the spatial distribution of the traffic demands over large geographical regions, including urban and rural areas, as well as temporal variations between peak and off-peak hours. Finally, the E3F is applied to quantify the energy efficiency of the downlink of a 3GPP LTE radio access network