“…SE and then sharply decreases when the transmit power increases, i.e., when SE increases. This behaviour, which has been reported in several other works, e.g., [39,40], is explained by the presence of static power consumptions, i.e., independent of the transmit power, counterbalancing the natural conflicting behaviour of EE and SE. Indeed, at low transmit power, i.e., low SE, the static parts are predominant and hence increasing the transmission power results in an increase of both SE and EE.…”