There is an increasing need to power cellular base stations (BSs) using solar energy in many parts of the globe. This is primarily because of the high cost of running these base stations on traditional power sources such as diesel due to a lack of reliable grid availability in those areas. Apart from the high cost, increasing diesel consumption also causes harm to the environment due to its increasing global carbon footprint. Using solar energy powered base stations is a highly promising solution to address these issues. One of the main areas of concern for solar powered cellular networks is to precisely manage the resources, namely, the available spectrum and energy so as to avoid power outages and to maintain an acceptable QoS for the end users. This article gives an overview of the challenges faced in resource management for solar powered base stations and presents state-of-the-art resource management strategies for both grid-connected and off-grid solar powered base stations.

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太阳能蜂窝网络的能源和延迟感知资源管理


全球许多地区对使用太阳能为蜂窝基站 (BS) 供电的需求日益增长。这主要是因为这些地区缺乏可靠的电网可用性，使用柴油等传统能源运行这些基站的成本很高。除了成本高昂之外，柴油消耗量的增加还会因其全球碳足迹的增加而对环境造成危害。使用太阳能供电的基站是解决这些问题的一个非常有前途的解决方案。太阳能供电蜂窝网络关注的主要领域之一是精确管理资源，即可用频谱和能量，以避免断电并为最终用户维持可接受的服务质量。本文概述了太阳能基站资源管理所面临的挑战，并提出了并网和离网太阳能基站的最先进的资源管理策略。