Wireless Base Station Power Budget Control via Beam Consolidation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wireless networks face challenges in managing power consumption efficiently in wireless base stations, leading to potential overconsumption and reduced service quality due to limited power allocation, especially when serving multiple mobile communication devices.
Innovation Solution
Implementing power consumption management by determining the current power consumption of wireless base stations and adjusting parameters such as beamforming settings and data transmission rates to maintain power within allocated limits, including consolidating beams for geographically close devices and reducing data rates when necessary.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the wireless base station increases power consumption to improve service quality and support more mobile devices, then the communication capacity and service quality are improved, but the power budget is exceeded
Solution Approach 1:
The base station dynamically adjusts its operational parameters including beamforming settings, data transmission rates, and beam consolidation strategies based on real-time power consumption monitoring and mobile device locations, allowing the system to adapt power usage to actual needs while staying within power budget constraints
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes operational parameters such as beamforming configuration, transmission power levels, and data rates to optimize the balance between communication capacity and power consumption, ensuring the base station can serve multiple devices effectively without exceeding its power budget
2Reliability
If the wireless base station maintains high power consumption to ensure consistent service quality, then the service quality is maintained, but the operational duration is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The base station implements periodic monitoring of power consumption and mobile device locations, with regular adjustments to beamforming and transmission parameters, ensuring service quality is maintained through controlled power usage cycles rather than continuous high power consumption
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors power consumption levels and mobile device locations, using this feedback to dynamically adjust beamforming settings and transmission rates, ensuring service quality is maintained while optimizing operational duration through adaptive power management
3Reliability
If the wireless base station uses individual beams for each mobile device to improve communication quality, then the communication quality is improved, but the device complexity and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The base station consolidates communication beams for geographically close mobile devices into shared beams, reducing the total number of individual beams required while maintaining communication quality through coordinated beamforming across multiple devices
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different beamforming strategies based on local conditions, using individual beams for devices requiring high-quality communication and consolidated beams for devices in similar geographic locations, optimizing the balance between communication quality and system complexity
Data Source
AI summary
A communication system includes a first wireless base station supporting communications with multiple mobile communication devices. The first wireless base station is limited to an amount of power it is able to consume. For example, the wireless base station receives power consumption information from a power consumption manager. To control power consumption with respect to the received power consumption information, the wireless base station determines (such as based on an estimation, calculation, measurement, etc.), an amount of a power consumption by the wireless base station while communicating with multiple mobile communication devices. The wireless base station adjusts wireless communications transmitted from the wireless base station to maintain the power consumption of the wireless base station with respect to a power consumption limit as indicated by the received power consumption information.