Provided are an energy-saving method, a base station, a control unit, and a storage medium. The method includes: collecting energy-consumption influencing factor data of a target cell; predicting a load trend of the target cell according to the energy-consumption influencing factor data; and determining, according to the load trend, an energy-saving strategy of the target cell and effective time corresponding to the energy-saving strategy and executing the energy-saving strategy according to the effective time.

The transmission of a reference signal, such as a CSI-RS, is enabled while maintaining a power saving effect when performing inter-cell cooperative transmission/reception or the like in a plurality of cells. In order to realize inter-cell cooperative transmission/reception, a CSI-RS which is used for estimating the state of a spatial propagation path of a communication line is generated by a CSI-RS generation unit, and the CSI-RS is disposed in a predetermined subframe by a disposition unit and transmitted. At this time, when a frame has ten subframes #0 to #9, the CSI-RS is disposed in the subframes #4 and #9, which are subframes excluding the subframes #0 and #5 incapable of transmitting a CSI-RS and are subframes other than subframes capable of acting as MBSFN subframes when discontinuous communication (Extended Cell DTX) is performed so as to achieve power saving, and transmitted.

Systems, devices and automated processes are provided for configuring backup battery power for RF radio operations at a base station, including a module configured to communicate with an API tool to receive a plurality of data sets using an open API format about metrics of various operating distributed power sources; a cell site module configured to monitor power usage at a cell site and to generate a series of data sets about the power usage at the cell site; an analysis module configured to correlate the plurality of data sets of the various operated distributed power sources with the series of data sets of power usage at the cell site; the analysis module to forecast a frequency and a duration of a power outage at the cell site based on metrics of correlated data of the data sets of the various operated distributed power sources and the series of data sets about power usage at the cell site; and a backup power supply configured with a capacity at the cell site based on the metrics derived from the correlated data wherein the capacity backup power supply is determined in accordance the frequency and the duration of the power outage at the cell site.

Embodiments herein disclose e.g. a method performed by a network node (12) for handling operation in a communication network, wherein the network node comprises at least one power supply unit, and one or more additional power units for supplying power to the network node. The network node (12) obtains an output from a computational model; and sets an output voltage from the at least one power supply unit based on the obtained output.

This disclosure provides a method in a cellular telecommunications network, wherein the cellular telecommunications network includes a first transceiver providing a first access connection in a first spectrum range, and a second transceiver providing a second access connection in a second spectrum range, the method including determining that a trigger condition for reconfiguring the second transceiver has been met; and, in response, evaluating a plurality of candidate transition options, wherein each transition option includes transferring users from the second spectrum range to the first access connection, and, following the transferring, reconfiguring the second transceiver, wherein the evaluation is based on a user impact of the transition; selecting a transition option based on the evaluation; causing the transfer of users from the second spectrum range according to the selected transition option; and causing the reconfiguration of the second transceiver according to the selected transition option.

A method for collecting frequency spectrum data for an automated frequency coordination (AFC) system includes determining an operation mode of a Wi-Fi access point. The method also includes in response to a determination that the operation mode is associated with 6 GHz transmissions, determining a power mode of the Wi-Fi access point. The method also includes in response to a determination that the Wi-Fi access point is in a standard power mode, scanning one or more 6 GHz bands to begin collecting 6 GHz frequency spectrum data.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods for configuring a power savings signal in fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) networks. The wireless device may transmit, to a base station within a network, power savings requirements and receiving, from the base station, a configuration of a power saving signal, where the configuration indicates one or more functionalities of the power saving signal. The wireless device may periodically receive, from the base station, the power saving signal and interpret the power saving signal based on the configuration. The configuration of the power saving signal may be received via radio resource control signaling.

Example implementations relate to an access point (AP) that can via up from power save mode via a including Bluetooth low energy (BLE) system-on-chip (SoC) within the AP. The AP can include a power source, a power reset logic component in communication with the power source, a BLE SoC, a processor, and a non-transitory memory resource instructions executable by the processor that signals the AP is in a power save mode, receives an indication, via the BLE SoC, to wake up the AP, and wake up, via the BLE SoC, the AP in response to receiving the indication.

A wireless device receives one or more indications including: a wake-up indication indicating downlink control channel monitoring during a discontinuous reception (DRX) on duration of a DRX cycle; and a dormancy indication indicating a switching to a dormant bandwidth part of a cell. Based on the dormancy indication and the wake-up indication, during the DRX on duration, the wireless device: monitors a downlink control channel on the cell is stopped, while maintaining the cell activated; and transmits a channel state information report for the dormant bandwidth part.

Methods and devices optimize backup power management for network devices connected to backup power sources including two different batteries. Machine learning techniques are used to predict upcoming power outages affecting the network device based on power-related historic information and current conditions. A backup-power operation plan prescribing usage of the backup power sources during the predicted power outages is then generated. The backup-power operation plan schedules a battery among the backup power devices to be used at least twice without being recharged.