Resource provisioning and dimensioning for solar powered cellular base stations

The deployment of cellular network infrastructure powered by renewable energy sources is gaining popularity as an avenue to provide coverage in areas without reliable grid power and also as a means to reduce the environmental impact of the telecommunications industry. To facilitate the deployment of...

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Published inGlobecom (2003) pp. 2498 - 2503
Main Authors Chamola, Vinay, Sikdar, Biplab
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2014
Subjects
Base stations
Batteries
Data models
Load modeling
Meteorology
Power demand
Solar energy
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Summary:The deployment of cellular network infrastructure powered by renewable energy sources is gaining popularity as an avenue to provide coverage in areas without reliable grid power and also as a means to reduce the environmental impact of the telecommunications industry. To facilitate the deployment of such networks, this paper addresses the problem of resource provisioning and dimensioning solar powered base stations in terms of the required battery capacity and photo-voltaic (PV) panel sizing. The paper first develops a framework for evaluating the outage probability associated with a base station at a given location as a function of the battery and panel size, by using the solar energy and traffic profiles as inputs. A model is then proposed to evaluate the optimal battery and PV panel sizing, subject to the desired limit on the worst month outage probability. The proposed framework for dimensioning the base station's energy resource requirements has been evaluated using real solar irradiation data for multiple locations.
ISSN:1930-529X
DOI:10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037183