Integration strategy of EARTH energy efficiency enablers

The overall target of the EARTH project is to reduce the power consumption of mobile broadband networks by 50%. For this, solutions acting all the way from components in the base stations, link level improvements, as well as radio network level concepts are developed. This paper presents a strategy for how these energy efficiency enablers can be integrated into an overall solution. The energy efficiency enablers are structured according to their time scale of operation, and mapped to the most suitable application scenarios. Furthermore, to illustrate the application of this integration strategy, an illustrative example is presented.