Toward Energy Efficiency in Radio Access Networks for 5G and Beyond: A Review of the State of the Art, Comparison of Power Consumption for Popular Open 5G RANs, and Techno-Economic Cost Impact.

Mla Vilakazi

Rozeena Ebrahim Albert A. Lysko Chris R. Burger Mla Vilakazi Moshe T. Masonta Laurence Banda Toward Energy Efficiency in Radio Access Networks for 5G and Beyond: A Review of the State of the Art, Comparison of Power Consumption for Popular Open 5G RANs, and Techno-Economic Cost Impact. 187799-187842 2025 13 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3626781 db/journals/access/access13.html#EbrahimLBVMB25

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