The effects of an Adaptive and Distributed Transmission Power Control on the performance of energy harvesting sensor networks

Zareei, Mahdi and Vargas-Rosales, Cesar and Villalpando-Hernandez, Rafaela and Azpilicueta, Leyre and Anisi, Mohammad Hossein and Rehmani, Mubashir Husain (2018) The effects of an Adaptive and Distributed Transmission Power Control on the performance of energy harvesting sensor networks. Computer Networks, 137. pp. 69-82. ISSN 1389-1286

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Abstract

The design of routing protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has been traditionally tackled by assuming battery-powered sensors, in which minimizing the power consumption was the main objective. Advances in technology and the ability to harvest energy from the environment has enabled self-sustaining systems and thus diminish the significance of network lifetime considerations in the design of WSNs. Although WSNs operated by energy-harvesting sensors are not limited by network lifetime, they still pose new design challenges due to the unstable and uncertain amount of energy that can be harvested from the environment. In this paper, we propose a new protocol for energy-harvesting sensor networks that uses adaptive transmission power to maintain the network connectivity, and distributes the traffic load on the network. Based on local information, each node dynamically adjusts its transmission power in order to maximize the network's end-to-end performance. The simulation results indicate that the proposed protocol keeps the network connected at most of the times by using an efficient power management, outperforming greedy forwarding and dynamic duty cycle protocols in terms of packet delivery ratio, delay, and power management.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Funding Information: This work was supported by the SEP-CONACyT Research Project 255387, the School of Engineering and Sciences and the Telecommunications Research Focus Group at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Elsevier B.V.
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Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2022 23:11
Last Modified:	07 Jun 2023 18:46
URI:	http://repository-testing.wit.ie/id/eprint/4577

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