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