Adaptive Traffic Management and Energy Cooperation in Renewable-Energy-Powered Cellular Networks

In this paper, we consider a cellular system, in which base stations (BSs) are powered by both on-grid and renewable energy sources. To efficiently utilize the harvested energy of the BSs, we study adaptive traffic management (TM) and energy cooperation (EC) that aim at minimizing the on-grid energy consumption, while guaranteeing minimum average throughputs. To achieve this, we develop an adaptive TM and EC algorithm that jointly decides the energy sharing among BSs, the user association to BSs, and the sub-channel and power allocation in BSs. Within the algorithm, a network scheduling problem, which is mixed-integer non-linear programming (MINLP), should be solved in each timeslot. To efficiently solve it, we develop a network scheduling algorithm applying generalized Benders decomposition (GBD) that optimally solves the MINLP problem. In addition, we also develop a heuristic network scheduling algorithm that has a much lower computational complexity than the GBD algorithm, while providing comparable performance. Through the numerical results, we show that our algorithms always outperform the algorithms that use only one of TM or EC regardless of the system conditions.

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