
Chapter 12
Green Wireless Cellular
Networks in the Smart
Grid Environment
Shengrong Bu, F. Richard Yu and Peter X. Liu
Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University,
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Email: shengrbu@sce.carleton.ca; richard
yu@carleton.ca;
xpliu@sce.carleton.ca
12.1 Introduction .................................................... 338
12.2 Background ..................................................... 340
12.2.1 Green Wireless Cellular Networks ..................... 340
12.2.1.1 Energy-Efficient Solutions .................. 340
12.2.1.2 Key Tradeoffs in the Network .............. 342
12.2.2 Smart Grid ................................. ...