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Table 1 Power consumption of the macrocell base station components

From: Characterization and optimization of the power consumption in wireless access networks by taking daily traffic variations into account

Equipment

 

Macrocell

  

base station

Number of sectors

n sector

3

Number of transmitting

n Tx

1

antennas per sector

  

Digital signal processing

P el/proc

100 W

Power amplifier

η

12.8 %

Transceiver

P el/trans

100 W

Rectifier

P el/rect

100 W

Air conditioning

P el/airco

225 W

Microwave link

P el/link

80 W

 

P el/const

605 W

 

P el/load

1067.7 W

Total BS (F = 0)

P el/macro

605 W

Total BS (F = 1)

P el/macro

1672.7 W