SAMBAS project aims for sustainable 6G
A project is underway to reduce the carbon footprint of next generation 6G wireless technologies through a combination of innovations including the application of energy harvesting technologies.
This is the aim of Professor Stuart Walker from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at Essex University who has received EPSRC funding to undertake the SAMBAS project (Sustainable and Adaptive Ultra-High Capacity Micro Base Stations).
The project includes partners in Belgium, France and Hungary who are focussed on developing a millimetre wave micro base station that uses renewable energy harvesting in combination with energy-efficient hardware and communications protocols to reduce power consumption.
At the networking level, the project aims to reduce signalling overhead and energy requirements by an order of magnitude through distributed in-band context dissemination and energy-aware networking.
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Prof Walker explained that wireless communications systems – 3G, 4G & 5G - have focussed on network technical performance issues such as quality of service and quality of experience, so research has focussed on increasing bandwidth, reducing network latency, and ensuring reliable data transmission.
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