In the practice of 5G NPN deployment, in order to save time and cost, RAN sharing (i.e. NG-RAN is shared by any combination of PLMNs and NPNs) is a common deployment scenario for vertical industries. The customers will concern about the energy efficiency of their communication service especially in RAN sharing cases. Thus, it is reasonable for 5G system to acquire and expose the energy efficiency information of the customer including when it is served by RAN sharing network.
The 5G network operator A deploys local NPN
"N1" network in factories for customer C which is sharing resource of operator A's PLMN
"R".
Customer C has subscribed the
"Green energy Moni" value-added service for its NPN
"N1" from network operator A, thus it can access energy efficiency information corresponding to the
"N1" network from a web application provided by Operator A.
TS 28.554 already defines EE, EC and DV-related KPIs and use cases to acquire and calculate energy-efficiency at various levels within the 5G system.
[PR.5.4.6-1]
Subject to operator's policy and consent by the customer of NPN, the 5G system shall be able to acquire energy efficiency information of the NPN, including the shared network function(s) which is (are) serving the NPN, and expose this information to the NPN customer and authorized third parties.