• DocumentCode
    3604262
  • 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
  • Volume
    6
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1650
  • Lastpage
    1652
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1949-3029
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TSTE.2015.2454434
  • Filename
    7180380