Life is Short: The Impact of Power States on Base Station Lifetime

Luca Chiaraviglio, Marco Listanti and Edoardo Manzia
Additional contact information
Luca Chiaraviglio: Department of Information, Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome 00185, Italy
Marco Listanti: Department of Information, Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome 00185, Italy
Edoardo Manzia: Department of Information, Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome 00185, Italy

Energies, 2015, vol. 8, issue 12, 1-20

Abstract: We study the impact of power state transitions on the lifetime of base stations (BSs) in mobile networks. In particular, we propose a model to estimate the lifetime decrease/increase as a consequence of the application of power state changes. The model takes into account both hardware (HW) parameters, which depend on the materials used to build the device, and power state parameters, that instead depend on how and when power state transitions take place. More in depth, we consider the impact of different power states when a BS is active, and one sleep mode state when a BS is powered off. When a BS reduces the power consumption, its lifetime tends to increase. However, when a BS changes the power state, its lifetime tends to be decreased. Thus, there is a tradeoff between these two effects. Our results, obtained over universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) and long term evolution (LTE) case studies, indicate the need of a careful management of the power state transitions in order to not deteriorate the BS lifetime, and consequently to not increase the associated reparation/replacement costs.

Keywords: cellular networks; lifetime analysis; operation costs; energy-lifetime trade-off (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/8/12/12435/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/8/12/12435/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jeners:v:8:y:2015:i:12:p:12435-14426:d:60907

Access Statistics for this article

Energies is currently edited by Ms. Agatha Cao

More articles in Energies from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().