Title :
A Multistate Markov Model for Dimensioning Solar Powered Cellular Base Stations
Author :
Chamola, Vinay ; Sikdar, Biplab
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
The dimensioning of photovoltaic (PV) panel and battery sizes is one of the major issues regarding the design of solar powered cellular base stations (BSs). This letter proposes a multistate Markov model for the hourly harvested solar energy to determine the cost optimal PV panel and battery dimensions for a given tolerable outage probability at a cellular BS.
Keywords :
Markov processes; cellular radio; environmental factors; photovoltaic cells; probability; solar power; battery size dimensioning; cellular BS; green communication; hourly harvested solar energy; multistate Markov model; optimal PV panel cost determination; photovoltaic panel dimensioning; solar powered cellular base station dimensioning; tolerable outage probability; Base stations; Batteries; Markov processes; Photovoltaic systems; Solar energy; Green communications; solar energy;
Journal_Title :
Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSTE.2015.2454434
