Communicate Green

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Communicate Green is a project started under the IT2Green initiative.

Overview

In order to fulfill today’s high demands on mobile network usage, mobile network providers in Germany have around 123.000 base stations working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with a total power consumption of approx. 1455 GWh per year. The permanent availabilty of those network components causes a significant energy consumption. Through an adaptive, context-aware and technology-comprehensive power management in mobile networks, a considerable amount of energy can be saved by maintaining the high quality of experience at the same time. There are a lot of contextual information present in mobile network components and end devices, which can help to calculate decisions for a dynamic de- and reactivating of network components (e.g., base stations).

The main focus of our work in this project is the development of a context entity that aggregates and processes contextual information in order to calculate decisions for network optimizations. By applying various context acquisition approaches, both the network as well as the user view will be included into the power management process.

ComGreen Showtable

Within the project, SNET and T-Labs developed a demonstrator, which visualizes the effects of power management algorithms under realistic conditions.

For further details, please visit the ComGreen Showtable page.

ComGreen Video

SNET is part of the ComGreen Video that was produced by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) in order to introduce the idea of ComGreen! You can see the ComGreen Video at Vimeo!