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Title: | A blockchain-based framework for energy trading between solar powered base stations and grid |
Authors: | Chamola, Vinay |
Keywords: | EEE Blockchain Grid files |
Issue Date: | Oct-2020 |
Publisher: | ACM Digital Library |
Abstract: | The rapidly increasing mobile traffic across the globe has proliferated the deployment of cellular base stations, which has, in turn, led to an increase in the power consumption and carbon footprint of the telecommunications industry. In recent times, solar-powered base stations (SPBSs) have gained much popularity in the telecom sector due to their ability to make operations more sustainable. However, some potential energy benefits rendered by the SPBSs have not yet been realized. In areas with dense base station deployment or low mobile traffic, SPBSs store surplus energy, which, in most instances, gets lost due to limited charge storage capacity of the batteries. To limit the wastage of energy, an appropriate mechanism enabling the utilization of excess energy produced by these base stations can be adopted. To this end, we model a Base Station-to-Grid (BS2G) network in which the grid can utilize surplus energy spared by the SPBSs. To overcome challenges in regards to scalability, robustness, and cost-optimization, we propose using the blockchain technology to create the BS2G network. Blockchain is a distributed ledger designed to record transactions in a transparent, lightweight, and tamper-proof manner. To make energy trade between base stations and the grid cost-effective, a game-theoretical approach has also been adopted in this paper. The proposed model simplifies the process of energy trading while also making it cost-optimal. |
URI: | https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3397166.3412800 http://dspace.bits-pilani.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/9814 |
Appears in Collections: | Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering |
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