Sleep mode power saving for layer 1 and radio unit equipment

A method, comprising:

• facilitating, by a device comprising a processor, altering a communication schedule of physical layer equipment, associated with a cell of a communication network, from an active schedule to a sleep schedule in response to no user equipment being determined to be actively connected to the cell, wherein the sleep schedule repeats at intervals of a period and comprises active time slots and inactive time slots;
• and
• in response to the facilitating of the altering,
• scheduling, by the device, transmission of a network connection message by the physical layer equipment during an active time slot of the active time slots, and
• deactivating, by the device, the physical layer equipment during an inactive time slot of the inactive time slots.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• assigning a low-power communication schedule to Layer 1 equipment associated with a cell of a communication network based on an indication that a number of network devices actively connected to the cell is less than a threshold number, wherein the low-power communication schedule repeats at intervals of a period and comprises an active time slot and inactive time slots;
• and
• in response to the assigning,
• facilitating transmission of network attachment information by the Layer 1 equipment during the active time slot, and
• disabling at least a portion of the Layer 1 equipment during the inactive time slots.