Traffic and Energy Load Balancing in Cooperative Dual-Powered Green Cellular Networks

Table of Contents

Seminars-1-2026 - This article is part of a series.

Part 1: Academic Leadership in Global Standards: From Research Projects to IETF and 6G

Part 2: Human-AI Collaboration

Part 3: Back to basics: Unleashing the power of switches with simple hacks

Part 4: This Article

Part 5: From Ground to Sky: Enhancing UAV Connectivity with 5G and Beyond (IEEE Distinguished Lecture)

Part 6: Labdoo: Enabling Global Education - One School at a Time

Part 7: From the Internet of Musical Things to the Musical Metaverse: enabling technologies and open challenges

Abstract #

Power consumption in cellular wireless communication base stations is a significant cost factor for the service providers. Further, it significantly adds to the global carbon footprint. To this end, ambient-powered wireless base stations are being explored. In this presentation, we will present the case of networked cellular base stations that are equipped with solar/ambient energy harvesting capability as well as they are connected to the power grid for their uninterrupted operation. Since the ambient energy availability as well as cell traffic are stochastic processes, we demonstrate the need for inter-base station cooperation for dealing with this doubly-stochastic processes at potentially reduced grid power consumption cost. Under such inter-base station cooperative scenario, we investigate the energy harvesting and storage capacity and operation optimization strategies for operator revenue maximization and/or green cellular operation. Beyond the CAPEX optimization, implementation of the proposed strategies require only software intervention at the Radio Network Controller or Remote Radio Units.

Bio #

Swades De received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, USA, in 2004, MTech in Optoelectronics and Optical Communications from IIT Delhi in 1998, and BTech in Radiophysics and Electronics from University of Calcutta in 1993. He is currently a Senior Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Dhananjaya Chair Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Before moving to IIT Delhi in 2007, he was a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor with the Department of ECE, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA, from 2004–2007. He worked as an ERCIM Post-doctoral Researcher at ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy (2004), and has nearly five years of industry experience in India on telecom hardware and software development, from 1993–1997, 1999. His research interests are broadly in communication networks, with emphasis on performance modeling and analysis. Current directions include energy sustainable and green communications, in-band coexistence and spectrum sharer communications, IoT communications, and smart grid networks. Dr. De is a fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Indian National Science Academy (INSA), The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), and Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc). He is a recipient of Abdul Kalam National Technology Innovation Fellowship. Dr. De currently serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.