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Energy Consumption Modelling for 5G Radio Base Stations with Machine Learning

Ringwald, Daniel LU and Larsson, Daniel LU (2023) EITM01 20231
Department of Electrical and Information Technology
Abstract
With an ongoing energy crisis in Europe and an ever-evolving political climate where the environmental impacts of industries are regarded as a top priority, the topic of energy efficiency is high on everyone’s agenda. Mathematical optimization of energy consumption requires a model of the problem at hand. In this thesis linear regression is compared with the gradient boosted trees method and a neural network to see how well they are able to predict energy consumption from field data of 5G radio base stations.

The main focus of this thesis has been investigating different architectures of the machine learning models and which features result in the best predictive ability of the models. The models have been trained using field data from... (More)
With an ongoing energy crisis in Europe and an ever-evolving political climate where the environmental impacts of industries are regarded as a top priority, the topic of energy efficiency is high on everyone’s agenda. Mathematical optimization of energy consumption requires a model of the problem at hand. In this thesis linear regression is compared with the gradient boosted trees method and a neural network to see how well they are able to predict energy consumption from field data of 5G radio base stations.

The main focus of this thesis has been investigating different architectures of the machine learning models and which features result in the best predictive ability of the models. The models have been trained using field data from deployed radio base station products. This added a complex data processing layer to the work done in this thesis.

The features that resulted in the best performance were, Number of antennas, Configured Max Transmitter Power, Frequency, Bandwidth, IoT capability, Product type, MAC volume, Throughput volume, PRB utilization, RB symbol utilization and MicroSleepTime.

The findings were that the ANN model had the best predictive ability and it, along with the Gradient Boosted Trees model, performed better than the linear regression model, especially for radio products with more complex configurations. The average errors of the models were 9.47 · 10−3 EUs for the ANN model, 10.3 · 10−3 EUs for the Gradient Boosted Trees model and 13.5 · 10−3 EUs for the linear regression model. (Less)
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author
Ringwald, Daniel LU and Larsson, Daniel LU
supervisor
organization
course
EITM01 20231
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Machine learning, energy modelling, radio base station, 5G, neural network, gradient boosted trees
report number
LU/LTH-EIT 2023-953
language
English
id
9133984
date added to LUP
2023-10-13 14:16:17
date last changed
2023-10-13 14:16:17
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  abstract     = {{With an ongoing energy crisis in Europe and an ever-evolving political climate where the environmental impacts of industries are regarded as a top priority, the topic of energy efficiency is high on everyone’s agenda. Mathematical optimization of energy consumption requires a model of the problem at hand. In this thesis linear regression is compared with the gradient boosted trees method and a neural network to see how well they are able to predict energy consumption from field data of 5G radio base stations. 

The main focus of this thesis has been investigating different architectures of the machine learning models and which features result in the best predictive ability of the models. The models have been trained using field data from deployed radio base station products. This added a complex data processing layer to the work done in this thesis. 

The features that resulted in the best performance were, Number of antennas, Configured Max Transmitter Power, Frequency, Bandwidth, IoT capability, Product type, MAC volume, Throughput volume, PRB utilization, RB symbol utilization and MicroSleepTime.

The findings were that the ANN model had the best predictive ability and it, along with the Gradient Boosted Trees model, performed better than the linear regression model, especially for radio products with more complex configurations. The average errors of the models were 9.47 · 10−3 EUs for the ANN model, 10.3 · 10−3 EUs for the Gradient Boosted Trees model and 13.5 · 10−3 EUs for the linear regression model.}},
  author       = {{Ringwald, Daniel and Larsson, Daniel}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Energy Consumption Modelling for 5G Radio Base Stations with Machine Learning}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}