Towards a unified, and complete end-to-end (E2E) energy testing framework
In this white paper, the authors — Marcin Hoffmann, Marcin Dryjanski, Adrian Kliks (Rimedo Labs, an associated partner of the i14y Lab) and Ajesh Pulyaar Keerthi, Mohammadreza Razmi (Deutsche Telekom / i14y Lab) as well as Sabine Demel (Deutsche Telekom), and Norbert Entstrasser (Deutsche Telekom) as a reviewer — advocate for a unified, and complete end-to-end (E2E) energy testing framework, which can be used as a benchmarking environment for EE testing of O-RAN applications and networks.
To fully understand the necessity of developing the E2E EE testing framework, they started by looking at the basic concepts and challenges behind EE in 5G and future 6G networks.
They go on to look at what multiple standardization bodies, such as ETSI, 3GPP, and the O-RAN Alliance, and work done at O-RAN Global PlugFests have contributed to EE testing, finding that the efforts are, at this stage, only slightly related to each other. In the paper, the authors discuss aspects of this in detail, seeking to build foundations for the creation of the first, complete E2E EE testing framework.