Provisioning green energy for small cell BSs

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Abstract

Mobile base stations (BSs) can be powered by green energy in order to reduce the on-grid energy consumption, and subsequently reduce the carbon footprints. However, equipping a BS with a green energy system incurs additional capital expenditure (CAPEX) which is determined by the size of the green energy generator, the battery capacity, and other installation expense. In this paper, we introduce and investigate the green energy provisioning (GEP) problem which aims to minimize the CAPEX on deploying green energy powered BSs while achieving the capacity expansion and traffic offloading target. The GEP problem is challenging because it involves optimization over multiple time slots and across multiple BSs. We propose a heuristic green energy provisioning solution which decomposes the GEP problem into three sub-problems: the traffic load optimization problem, the active BS selection problem, and the green energy system sizing problem. We propose algorithms to solve the sub-problems and subsequently solve the GEP problem.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number7037587
Pages (from-to)4935-4940
Number of pages6
JournalProceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2014 - Austin, United States
Duration: Dec 8 2014Dec 12 2014

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Signal Processing

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