Internship | AI-based management for sustainability in 6G Cell-Free Networks

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Energy savings and sustainability are a big challenge in mobile networks, with the energy consumption continuously increasing due to the ever-increasing mobile network traffic.
Even though efforts are made to reduce the energy consumption of the mobile network in various ways, the radio infrastructure, in particular the base stations, are the components within the whole network to consume the largest amount of energy. A promising new architecture for achieving lower energy consumption while further enhancing the spatial performance fairness compared to traditional cellular networks, is cell-free networks (CFN). CFNs consist of multiple simple low-power access points (APs), which are spatially distributed, and can be seen as a distributed MIMO system. Multiple of these APs can be assigned to serve a single device. The intelligence of the network (for example AP clustering, scheduling, and sleep mode management) is located in a centralized pr...