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Table 1 System parameters

From: Modeling, metrics, and optimal design for solar energy-powered base station system

Parameter

Value

Carrier frequency/bandwidth

2.0 GHz/10 MHz

Path loss model

Table six in [39]

Coverage radius of the BS

200 m

PA efficiency η PA

2/3

Minimum downlink transmitted rate for users r min

500 Kbps

Mean service time of each user \(\mathbb {E}\left [ {t_{m}} \right ]\)

108 s

Traffic (active user) arrival rate λ m

0.15 (m 2·h)−1

Signal processing power of each UE \({\tilde P^{sp}}\)

0.1 W

Static power consumption P sta

60 W

Maximum output power per unit area under STC \(P_{\text {pan}}^{\max \;*}\)

100 W

Energy conversion efficiency of PV panels η pan

0.95

Charge efficiency η B

0.95

Discharge efficiency η inv

0.92

Maximum depth of discharge D max

80%

Number of non-availability days N ad

3

Maximum tolerable service outage probability \(p_{\text {sop}}^{\max }\)

0.01

Minimum solar energy utilization efficiency \(\gamma _{\text {seue}}^{\min }\)

90%

Optimum state range of battery bank \(\left [ {\gamma _{\text {mdod}}^{\min },\gamma _{\text {mdod}}^{\max }}\right ]\)

0% to 10%

Cost per unit in installation of PV panels C pan

35 $/ m 2

Cost per unit in installation of battery bank C B

0.4 $/Wh

Maximum number of generations g max

1,200

Population size L

200

Crossover operation parameters k 1 ′ and k 2 ′

0.85, 0.6

Mutation operation parameters k 3 ′ and k 4 ′

0.1, 0.05

Parameter a w

0.99