Polar Modulation Based Reduction of Communications Energy Consumption

Power consumption of the communications infrastructure, particularly that which is LTE-based, is driven by the efficiency of the transmitter. Lower efficiency in the transmitter scales to needs for both larger power supplies and greater resources needed to remove the power dissipated by both the transmitter and its power supply. Improvement in transmitter efficiency therefore leverages, through these other functions, to provide a significant drop of input power draw while maintaining the same quality of service through the network. This corresponds worldwide to more than a million ton reduction of CO2 from electric generation per year at present levels of LTE network buildout.