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Integrating Cellular Networks, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy: Analysis, Architecture, and Challenges
- Source :
- IEEE Access, IEEE Access, 2015, 3, pp.2755-2770. ⟨10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2507781⟩, IEEE Access, IEEE, 2015, 3, pp.2755-2770. ⟨10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2507781⟩, IEEE Access, Vol 3, Pp 2755-2770 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015.
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Abstract
- International audience; Powering cellular base stations with renewable energy are one of the long-term strategies for achieving green networks and reducing their operational costs. As an energy provider, the power grid is evolving into a smarter one, which allows more energy-efficient cellular networks and enables cooperation and interaction with the smart grid. On one hand, cellular networks can use harvested renewable energy and on-site energy storage to reduce their energy costs. On the other hand, the price of electricity depends on the energy load, which will eventually contribute to decreasing the peak consumption and global energy cost. In this paper, we propose new integration architecture for renewable energy-powered cellular networks and the smart grid. The proposed architecture is designed based on the classification and the analysis of the existing proposals and the requirements of the smart grid, renewable energy systems, and cellular networks.
- Subjects :
- General Computer Science
Computer science
020209 energy
Distributed computing
02 engineering and technology
7. Clean energy
Energy storage
[INFO.INFO-NI]Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]
Intermittent energy source
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
General Materials Science
Power grid
smart grid
energy efficiency
business.industry
[INFO.INFO-MM]Computer Science [cs]/Multimedia [cs.MM]
General Engineering
Cellular networks
020206 networking & telecommunications
Energy consumption
renewable energy
Renewable energy
Smart grid
13. Climate action
Distributed generation
Embedded system
lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Electricity
business
lcsh:TK1-9971
integration architecture
Efficient energy use
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21693536
- Volume :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Access
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c294b901ba3d25c57e641b69815b840f