SAMBAS - Sustainable and Adaptive Ultra-High Capacity Micro Base Stations
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Essex
Department Name: Computer Sci and Electronic Engineering
Abstract
5G is arguably the most energy-hungry mobile technology yet, with a scalability close to the limit of what the planet and society can environmentally and practically afford. There is already plenty of research towards sustainable and zero-energy end-devices, but huge gains in the energy efficiency and sustainability of the power-hungry network infrastructure behind them are still to be achieved. SAMBAS' project vision represents a holistic approach in driving a significantly more sustainable B5G/6G wireless communications network, where joint considerations of radical innovations at radio, network, and service levels will lead to critically reduced power needs. SAMBAS contributes towards this goal by developing an innovative sustainable millimetre wave (mmWave) micro base station that makes effective use of renewable energy harvesting in combination with extremely energy-efficient hardware, and communications protocols to reduce power consumption >99%. At the networking level, we aim to reduce signalling overhead and energy requirements by an order of magnitude through distributed in-band context dissemination and energy-aware networking. Finally, through joint energy-aware network and cloud resource optimization, a sustainable end-to-end mmWave-based system will be developed. We target B5G performance in terms of latency, ultra-high capacity data rates (>44 Gb/s), reliability, and range, while targeting a 99% reduction in the reliance on non-renewable energy sources. An integrated prototype will be validated via a multi-user indoor interactive virtual reality application, and an outdoors vehicular communications application.
People |
ORCID iD |
Stuart Walker (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Abbas Bradai
(2022)
D1.2 - Sustainable mmWave µBS-based network architecture
Cecille Gloaguen
(2022)
D1.1 - Indoor and outdoor use cases for sustainable mmWave networks
Jeroen Famaey
(2022)
SAMBAS Periodic Report No.1
Jeroen Famaey
(2022)
Sustainable and Adaptive Ultra-High-Capacity Micro Base Stations
Michael C. Parker
(2023)
D2.1 - Modular mmWave µBS Transceiver and Antenna Design
Speaker(s)
(2022)
CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2022 Towards Sustainable ICT (S-ICT)
Title | Network throughput analysis |
Description | Modelling networks |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | To get better network efficiency |
Description | SAMURAI |
Organisation | Finland University |
Country | Finland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We formed a new partnership to bid for CHIST-ERA funding |
Collaborator Contribution | We submitted a new proposal to CHIST-ERA |
Impact | A new liaison was started. with the SAMURAI proposal submission |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | CHIST-ERA Annual Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CHIST-ERA Annual Projects Seminar took place on-line (but organised by Spain) 28-30 March 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.chistera.eu/sites/www.chistera.eu/files/CHIST-ERA%20Projects%20Seminar%202022%20Programm... |
Description | Presentation in CHIST-ERA forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | To draw together other partners in the CHIST-ERA portfolio |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |