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    Modelling of energy consumption for telecommunication base stations in Western Uganda
    (Kampala International University, 2023) Aceronga Kwocan
    Recently, the need for network coverage both in rural and urban areas of Uganda has grown significantly. This increase calls for more implementation of Base stations for the end users to transmit and receive calls and data. This rise in need of coverage results to increase in energy consumption as well. Power consumption rises as traffic does; however this scenario varies from geolocation to geolocation because sites in rural and urban areas have variable traffic loads. Therefore, in order to address various power consumption issues, it is necessary to analyze these sites and offer a model that network operators can employ. This study took into account the impact of traffic load on the energy consumption both in rural and urban locations in Western Uganda. Measurements of power consumption under real time traffic were taken from six urban and rural sites in Western Uganda over a period of 28 days. The data were analyzed with Microsoft EXCEL Software and models developed using MATLAB Software. Regression models are used to examine these effects of traffic load on power consumption. Based on measurements taken for twenty-eight days at six urban and rural sites, linear regression models have been presented. The findings showed that both rural and urban BTS were well-fitted by the suggested linear models. Depending on the layouts of the sites, it was found that energy consumption varied along with traffic, with the number of transceivers present having an impact on both the traffic load and energy consumption. Regardless of the site architecture, we can use linear regression to adequately characterize consumption at the BTS.