SUSTAINABILITY OF 6G: WAYS TO REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION
“This whitepaper identifies main challenges in the area of operational Sustainability of 6G by contrasting the consensual 6G vision of the European Industry and the expected evolution of services and the mobile ecosystem with the lessons learnt from 5G, in the sense of the main energy consumers and the reasons for the latter. In trying […]
“This whitepaper identifies main challenges in the area of operational Sustainability of 6G by contrasting the consensual 6G vision of the European Industry and the expected evolution of services and the mobile ecosystem with the lessons learnt from 5G, in the sense of the main energy consumers and the reasons for the latter. In trying to address these challenges, this whitepaper identifies several candidate enabling technologies, and more general approaches, for energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission reduction.
It also identifies some potential current research and standardization gaps, to be considered in the future work on the way towards more sustainable 6G. This whitepaper lays out a possible path towards more sustainable 6G operations with concrete recommendations for needed technological advances”.