Towards Energy Efficient Load Balancing for Sustainable Green Wireless Networks Under Optimal Power Supply

Md. Sanwar Hossain; Abu Jahid; Khondoker Ziaul Islam; Mohammed H. Alsharif; Khondokar Mizanur Rahman; Md. Fayzur Rahman; Md. Farhad Hossain

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3035447

IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

Towards Energy Efficient Load Balancing for Sustainable Green Wireless Networks Under Optimal Power Supply

Md. Sanwar Hossain,
Abu Jahid,
Khondoker Ziaul Islam,
Mohammed H. Alsharif,
Khondokar Mizanur Rahman,
Md. Fayzur Rahman,
Md. Farhad Hossain

Affiliations

Md. Sanwar Hossain: ORCiD; Department of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abu Jahid: ORCiD; Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Khondoker Ziaul Islam: ORCiD; Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mohammed H. Alsharif: ORCiD; Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
Khondokar Mizanur Rahman: ORCiD; School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Birmingham City University, Millennium Point, Birmingham, U.K
Md. Fayzur Rahman: ORCiD; Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Green University of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Md. Farhad Hossain: ORCiD; Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3035447
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8
pp. 200635 – 200654

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The enormous growth in the cellular networks and ubiquitous wireless services has incurred momentous energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and thereby, imposed a great challenge to the development of energy-efficient sustainable cellular networks. With the augmentation of harvesting renewable energy, cellular base stations (BSs) are progressively being powered by renewable energy sources (RES) to reduce the energy crisis, carbon contents, and its dependency on conventional grid supply. Thus, the combined utilization of renewable energy sources with the electrical grid system is proving to be a more realistic option for developing an energy-efficient as well as an eco-sustainable system in the context of green mobile communications. The ultimate objective of this work is to develop a traffic-aware grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) optimal power supply system endeavoring the remote radio head (RRH) enabled heterogeneous networks (HetNets) aiming to minimize grid energy consumption and carbon footprint while ensuring long-term energy sustainability and energy efficiency (EE). Moreover, the load balancing technique is implemented among collocated BSs for better resource blocks (RBs) utilization and thereafter, the performance of the system is compared with an existing cell zooming enabled cellular architecture for benchmarking. Besides, the techno-economic feasibility of the envisaged system has been extensively analyzed using HOMER optimization software considering the dynamic nature of solar generation profile and traffic arrival rate. Furthermore, a thorough investigation is conducted with the help of Monte-Carlo simulations to assess the wireless network performance in terms of throughput, spectral efficiency (SE), and energy efficiency as well under a wide range of design scenarios. The numerical outcomes demonstrate that the proposed grid-tied solar PV/battery system can achieve a significant reduction of grid power consumption yielding up to 54.8% and ensure prominent energy sustainability with the effective modeling of renewable energy harvesting.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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