• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.746-756
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• 2016

Owing to the intermittent power generation of renewable energy sources (RESs), future wireless cellular networks are required to reliably aggregate power from retailers. In this paper, we propose a distributed power allocation (DPA) scheme for base stations (BSs) powered by retailers with heterogeneous RESs in order to deal with the unreliable power supply (UPS) problem. The goal of the proposed DPA scheme is to maximize our well-defined utility, which consists of power satisfaction and unit power costs including added costs as a non-subscriber, based on linear and quadratic cost models. To determine the optimal amount of DPA, we apply dual decomposition, which separates the master problem into sub-problems. Optimal power allocation from each retailer can be obtained by iteratively coordinating between the BSs and retailers. Finally, through a mathematical analysis, we show that the proposed DPA can overcome the UPS for BSs powered from heterogeneous RESs.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.5712-5728
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• 2017

Recently, there are many studies, that considering green wireless cellular networks, have taken the energy consumption of the base station (BS) into consideration. In this work, we first introduce an energy consumption model of multi-mode sharing BS powered by multiple energy sources including renewable energy, local storage and power grid. Then communication load requests of the BS are transformed to energy demand queues, and battery energy level and worst-case delay constraints are considered into the virtual queue to ensure the network QoS when our objective is to minimize the long term electricity cost of BSs. Lyapunov optimization method is applied to work out the optimization objective without knowing the future information of the communication load, real-time electricity market price and renewable energy availability. Finally, linear programming is used, and the corresponding energy efficient scheduling policy is obtained. The performance analysis of our proposed online algorithm based on real-world traces demonstrates that it can greatly reduce one day's electricity cost of individual BS.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.35-45
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• 1992

The interest in photocatalysis, which is a new branch of catalysis, is steadily increasing. Recently photocatalysis is attracting considerable attention as new methods and processes for obtaining cheap and renewable sources of energy and for syntheses of chemically useful products. In this review article, the principles and some examples of heterogeneous and homogeneous photocatalyses are described. In addition, the problems yet to resolve and the prospect of application of photocatalysis are discussed.