Sabbatical Liesbet Van der Perre: Wireless Technologies to Support the Sustainable Development Goals: Critical and Crucial Study KU Leuven
Wireless technologies at the basis of 5G networks have the potential to improve energy efficiency by a factor of 10 with respect to the previous generation. Yet, reporting in the first large-scale rollout is anything but positive. The excessive consumption is explained by a combination of factors, including a not (yet) optimal implementation, and the (expected) larger data volume. To make a major step towards carbon-neutral networks in 6G, a ...