Tethered Balloon Technology for Green Communication in Smart Cities and Healthy Environment

TL;DR

This paper explores tethered balloon technology as a sustainable alternative to traditional base stations, demonstrating its effectiveness in reducing ecological and radiation hazards while maintaining communication quality.

Contribution

It introduces the deployment of tethered balloons at various altitudes and measures power density, comparing it with conventional wireless technologies for green communication.

Findings

Tethered balloons can effectively reduce radiation hazards.

Power density decreases with increased altitude of balloons.

Simulation confirms green communication efficiency of tethered balloons.

Abstract

The development and adopting of advanced communication technologies provide mobile users more convenience to connect any wireless network anytime and anywhere. Therefore, a large number of base stations (BS) are demanded keeping users connectivity, enhancing network capacity, and guarantee a sustained users Quality of Experiences (QoS). However, increasing the number of BS leads to an increase in the ecological ad radiation hazards. In order to green communication, many factors should be taken into consideration, i.e., saving energy, guarantee QoS, and reducing pollution hazards. Therefore, we propose tethered balloon technology that can replace a large number of BS and reduce ecological and radiation hazards due to its high altitude and feasible green and healthy broadband communication. The main contribution of this paper is to deploy tethered balloon technology at different altitude and measure the power density. Furthermore, we evaluate the measurement of power density from different height of tethered balloon comparison with traditional wireless communication technologies. The simulation results showed that tethered balloon technology can deliver green communication effectively and efficiently without any hazardous impacts.