The power consumption of mobile base stations remains the biggest contributor in the telecommunication networks. RoF has been recognized as a solution to realize energy-efficient base station architecture. In this paper, we investigate the base station power consumption per square meter for five different RoF transmission schemes. Results show that: (1) baseband-over-fiber transmission scheme is the most energy inefficient scheme in both rural and urban areas; (2) for rural areas using macro base stations (transmitting power above 40 dBm), digitized RF/IF-over-fiber technique have advantage in terms of energy consumption; (3) for urban areas using micro base stations (transmitting power less than 25 dBm), analog RF/IF-over-fiber are the most energy-efficient schemes.


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    Title :

    Radio-over-fiber as the energy efficient backhaul option for mobile base stations


    Contributors:
    Yizhuo Yang, (author) / Lim, C. (author) / Nirmalathas, A. (author)


    Publication date :

    2011-10-01


    Size :

    662380 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English