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Increasing Cellular Network Energy Efficiency for Railway Corridors

Schumacher, Adrian
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Merz, Ruben  
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Burg, Andreas  
January 1, 2022
Proceedings Of The 2022 Design, Automation & Test In Europe Conference & Exhibition (Date 2022)
25th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE)

Modern trains act as Faraday cages making it challenging to provide high cellular data capacities to passengers. A solution is the deployment of linear cells along railway tracks, forming a cellular corridor. To provide a sufficiently high data capacity, many cell sites need to be installed at regular distances. However, such cellular corridors with high power sites in short distance intervals are not sustainable due to the infrastructure power consumption. To render railway connectivity more sustainable, we propose to deploy fewer high-power radio units with intermediate low-power support repeater nodes. We show that these repeaters consume only 5% of the energy of a regular cell site and help to maintain the same data capacity in the trains. In a further step, we introduce a sleep mode for the repeater nodes that enables autonomous solar powering and even eases installation because no cables to the relays are needed.

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conference paper
DOI
10.23919/DATE54114.2022.9774757
Web of Science ID

WOS:000819484300204

Author(s)
Schumacher, Adrian
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Merz, Ruben  
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Burg, Andreas  
Date Issued

2022-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Journal
Proceedings Of The 2022 Design, Automation & Test In Europe Conference & Exhibition (Date 2022)
ISBN of the book

978-3-9819263-6-1

Series title/Series vol.

Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition

Start page

1103

End page

1106

Subjects

Automation & Control Systems

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Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

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Computer Science, Software Engineering

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Engineering, Industrial

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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Computer Science

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Engineering

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5g

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energy-efficiency

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mmwave

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das

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repeater

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25th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE)

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Mar 14-23, 2022

Available on Infoscience
July 18, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/189251
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