Green energy driven user association in cellular networks with dual battery system

Xilong Liu, Xueqing Huang, Nirwan Ansari

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Abstract

Green communications has received much attention in recent years. In cellular networks, base stations (BSs) account for more than 50 percent of the energy consumption. Reducing energy consumption of BSs is essential to realizing green cellular networks. Utilizing green energy to power BSs is a promising way to reduce the on-grid energy consumption. Maximizing the utilization of green energy has thus been proposed to furthest save the on-grid energy. In this paper, we propose a green energy driven user-BS association with dual battery system to maximize the utilization of green energy at BSs. The BSs of cellular networks are powered by both on-grid energy and green energy. The optimal usage of green energy is achieved by balancing the mobile users among BSs according to the amount of residual green energy in their batteries. This green energy driven user association optimization problem is NP-hard. Hence, we propose some heuristics to maximize the green energy utilization and approximate the optimal user association with low computational complexity. Finally, we validate the performance of the proposed algorithm through extensive simulations.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479966646
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 12 2016
Event2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Duration: May 22 2016May 27 2016

Publication series

Name2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016

Other

Other2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuala Lumpur
Period5/22/165/27/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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