Optimal direct load control of renewable powered small cells: Performance evaluation and bounds

Piovesan, Nicola; Miozzo, Marco; Dini, Paolo

doi:10.1109/wcnc.2018.8377448

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“…An offline solution of this problem is proposed in our work [32] and [33] using Dynamic Programming (DP) and with a priori knowledge of the environmental variables. In detail, the problem is represented as a graph and stated as a Shortest Path search.…”

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confidence: 99%

Coordinated Load Control of Renewable Powered Small Base Stations Through Layered Learning

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Piovesan

Dini

2020

IEEE Trans. on Green Commun. Netw.

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The massive deployment of Small Base Stations (SBSs) represents one of the most promising solutions adopted by 5G cellular networks to meet the foreseen huge traffic demand. The usage of renewable energies for powering the SBSs attracted particular attention for reducing the energy footprint and, thus, mitigating the environmental impact of mobile networks and enabling cost saving for the operators. The complexity of the system and the variability of the harvesting process suggest the adoption of learning methods. Here, we investigate techniques based on the Layered Learning paradigm to control dense networks of SBSs powered solely by solar energy. In the first layer, SBSs locally select switch ON/OFF policies according to their energy income and traffic demand based on a Heuristically Accelerated Reinforcement Learning method. The second layer relies on an Artificial Neural Network that estimates the network load conditions to implement a centralized controller enforcing local agent decisions. Simulation results prove that the control of the proposed framework mimics the behavior of the upper bound obtained offline with Dynamic Programming. Moreover, the proposed layered framework outperforms both a greedy and a distributed Reinforcement Learning solution in terms of throughput and energy efficiency under different traffic conditions.

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confidence: 99%