This Technical Report will study and identify potential enhancements on 5GS (e.g. including network energy related information exposure, enhancement for subscription and policy control to enable energy efficiency as service criteria) to improve energy efficiency and to support energy saving in the network, taking the EnergyServ requirements in TS 22.261 into consideration.
Potential enhancements on 5GS to take into account the availability of renewable energy may also be considered as part of this study.
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.
References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non-specific.
For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.
ETSI EN 202 336-12: "Environmental Engineering (EE); Monitoring and control interface for infrastructure equipment (power, cooling and building environment systems used in telecommunication networks); Part 12: ICT equipment power, energy and environmental parameters monitoring information model.
ETSI TS 105 174-2-2: "Access, Terminals, Transmission and Multiplexing (ATTM); Broadband Deployment - Energy Efficiency and Key Performance Indicators; Part 2: Network sites; Sub-part 2: Data centres".
For the purposes of the present document, the terms given in TR 21.905 and the following apply. A term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in TR 21.905.
Energy Consumption (EC):
The reduction of Energy Consumption deriving from some action(s), compared with the Energy Consumption when the action(s) is(are) not taken. It is measured in Joule (J) or Watthour (Wh).
carbon emission:
The quantity of emitted equivalent carbon dioxide (e.g. kg of CO2) (see TS 22.261).
energy credit:
Credit associated with the subscriber that can be used for credit-based energy control by the 5GS (see TS 22.261).
energy state:
State of a cell, a network element and/or a network function with respect to energy.
Renewable Energy:
"Energy from renewable sources" or "Renewable energy" means energy from renewable non-fossil sources. For example (but not limited to) wind, solar, aerothermal, geothermal, hydrothermal.
Carbon dioxide equivalent or CO2 equivalent (CO2e):
The amount of carbon dioxide emission that would cause the same integrated radiative forcing, over a given time horizon, as an emitted amount of a greenhouse gas or a mixture of greenhouse gases. The equivalent carbon dioxide emission is obtained by multiplying the emission of a greenhouse gas by its Global Warming Potential for the given time horizon. For a mix of greenhouse gases it is obtained by summing the equivalent carbon dioxide emissions of each gas. Equivalent carbon dioxide emission is a common scale for comparing emissions of different greenhouse gases but does not imply equivalence of the corresponding climate change responses.
For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in TR 21.905 and the following apply. An abbreviation defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same abbreviation, if any, in TR 21.905.
EC
The architecture for the present study shall be based on the existing 5G System architecture.
Solutions shall comply with the 5G System architectural principles in TS 23.501.