6G网络能耗面临的机遇与挑战

Challenges and Opportunity on 6G Network Power Consumption

过去十年来,移动通信网络在实现数据流量数百倍的增长同时能耗保持相对低速增长,为满足未来流量继续高速增长的需要,6G仍需进一步提升能效。对4G、5G在网络架构与空口、设备器件和节能功能等方面能效提升机制进行详细分析。6G网络将助力万物智联、数字孪生的智能社会的实现和满足空天地覆盖的需要,同时,对计算和传输能力提出更高的要求,而6G网络能效提升面临集成电路工艺极限、关键器件效率等诸多挑战,需系统性解决方案。提出6G在网络架构、高效器件和新型计算模式等方面开展研究与突破,以实现6G能效大幅提升的目标。

In the past 10 years,mobile communication networks have achieved hundreds of times the growth of data traffic while maintaining a relatively low growth rate in energy consumption,and 6G still needs to further improve energy efficiency in order to meet the needs of continued rapid traffic growth in the future.Firstly,the energy efficiency improvement scheme of 4G and 5G in network architecture and air interface,equipment component and energy-saving functions is analyzed in detail.6G networks will help realize an intelligent society with intelligent connectivity and digital twins of everything and meet the needs of air-space-ground coverage,putting forward higher requirement for computing and transmission capabilities,while the improvement of energy efficiency of 6G networks faces many challenges such as integrated circuit process limits and key device efficiency,and requires systematic solutions.It is proposed that 6G should carry out research and breakthroughs in network architecture,high-efficiency devices and new computing modes to achieve the goal of greatly improving 6G energy efficiency.