ML-based Predictive Models for Power Consumption in Virtualised O-RANs

arXiv:2607.24256v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As communication networks adopt virtualized and disaggregated architectures, achieving energy efficiency has become increasingly important for both economic and environmental reasons. Traditional methods for power modeling are inadequate in these dynamic software-defined environments due to their inability to model complex and nonlinear factors affecting energy use. We investigate the use of feature extraction and regressor-based machine learning methods for predicting power consumption in virtualized open radio access networks (O-RANs), utilizing datasets from a hardware-instrumented testbed. We test three variants of deep neural networks (DNNs), namely, a standard DNN, a regularized DNN, and a hybrid model combining DNN-based feature extraction with an XGBoost regressor. We evaluate the performance of these models for various system parameters such as transmission gain, modulation/coding schemes, and airtime. We show that the hybrid model consistently outperformed others, achieving a mean relative error below 0.5%. Results suggest hybrid models like DNN-XGBoost offer superior accuracy and could be integrated into O-RAN management tools to enable more energy-efficient network orchestration in future networks.

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Source: arXiv cs.AI | 2026-07-28