Renewable Energy-Enabled Cellular Networks

Energy Allocation Policy for Cellular Networks Powered by Renewable Energy

The explosive wireless data service requirement accompanied with carbon dioxide emission and consumption of traditional energy has put pressure on both industry and academia. Wireless networks powered with the uneven and intermittent generated renewable energy have been widely researched and lead to a new research paradigm called green communication. In this paper, we comprehensively consider t...

Optimizing Cellular Networks Enabled with Renewal Energy via Strategic Learning

An important issue in the cellular industry is the rising energy cost and carbon footprint due to the rapid expansion of the cellular infrastructure. Greening cellular networks has thus attracted attention. Among the promising green cellular network techniques, the renewable energy-powered cellular network has drawn increasing attention as a critical element towards reducing carbon emissions du...

HetNets Powered by Renewable Energy: a Cost Effective Paradigm for Sustainable Next Generation Cellular Networks

Renewable energy can become a key factor for sustainable next generation cellular networks. This work explores the possibility to feed base stations of a Heterogeneous Network with renewable energy sources, and analyzes implications of such choice with respect to a classical grid powered solution. Cost and CO2 emission savings are evaluated for different scenarios, showing that properly powerin...

User Association with Maximizing Sum Energy Efficiency for Massive MIMO Enabled Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

In this paper, we design an association scheme to maximize the sum energy efficiency for massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) enabled heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs). Considering that the final formulated problem is in a sum-of-ratio form, we first need to transform it into a parametric nonfractional form, by which we can achieve its solution through a two-layer iterative al...

Energy Sources: Non Renewable and Renewable