Speaker : Ashutosh Balakrishnan (IMT)

Abstract :
Realizing energy sustainable communication networks has been a key challenge in the upcoming sixth generation (6G) networks. A key bottleneck has been to make the energy-efficient network solutions industrially attractive and scalable, thereby necessitating a techno-economic analysis. Through this talk, the prospects of achieving energy sustainability as well as cost profitability through ambient powered and grid connected communication framework is analyzed and studied. The power grid connectivity plays a vital role in achieving the aforesaid objective, alongside ambient powered base stations (BSs). The networked system is further analyzed to outlay the challenges, physical constraints, and network operations involved in optimizing the system. The talk highlights the key system design objectives and their inherent techno-economic tradeoffs. Specifically, the talk outlines the importance of energy balancing in networks, and showcases the benefit of joint load-energy balancing in networks in contrast to the traditional load balancing paradigm.

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