A common concern among the population is that installing new 5G Base Stations (BSs) over a given geographic region may result in an uncontrollable increase of Radio-Frequency "Pollution" (RFP). To face this dispute in a way that can be understood by the layman, we develop a very simple model, which evaluates the RFP at selected distances between the user and the 5G BS locations. We then obtain closed-form expressions to quantify the RFP increase/decrease when comparing a pair of alternative 5G deployments. Results show that a dense 5G deployment is beneficial to the users living in proximity to the 5G BSs, with an abrupt decrease of RFP (up to three orders of magnitude) compared to a sparse deployment. We also analyze scenarios where the user equipment minimum detectable signal threshold is increased, showing that in such cases a (slight) increase of RFP may be experienced.
@article{arxiv.1912.00902,
title = {Will the Proliferation of 5G Base Stations Increase the Radio-Frequency "Pollution"?},
author = {Luca Chiaraviglio and Giuseppe Bianchi and Nicola Blefari-Melazzi and Marco Fiore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.00902},
year = {2020}
}
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Cite as: Luca Chiaraviglio, Giuseppe Bianchi, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Marco Fiore, Will the Proliferation of 5G Base Stations Increase the Radio-Frequency "Pollution"?, IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Antwerp, Belgium, May 2020