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dc.contributor.authorHe, T.
dc.contributor.authorChin, K.
dc.contributor.authorSoh, Sie Teng
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-28T06:37:28Z
dc.date.available2017-11-28T06:37:28Z
dc.date.created2017-11-28T06:21:45Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationHe, T. and Chin, K. and Soh, S.T. 2017. On Maximizing Min Flow Rates in Rechargeable Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58888
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/TII.2017.2771288
dc.description.abstract

IEEE In a rechargeable Wireless Sensor Network (rWSN), the amount of data forwarded by source nodes to one or more sinks is bounded by the energy harvesting rate of sensor nodes. To improve sensing quality, we consider a novel approach whereby we place a finite number of Auxiliary Chargers (ACs) with Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) and energy harvesting ability to boost the energy harvesting rate of some sensor nodes. We formulate a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) to determine the subset of nodes that if upgraded will maximize the minimum source rate. We also propose two heuristic algorithms to place ACs in large scale rWSNs: (i) GND, which checks every non-upgraded sensor node and parks an AC next to the one yielding the highest increase in max-min rate, and (ii) OUED, which uses a relaxed version of the MILP to first share one unit of energy among sensor nodes. It then upgrades the sensor node with the highest one-unit share. Our results show that the max-min rate obtained by GND and OUED is respectively within 99.60% and 97.82% of the max-min rate derived by MILP in small networks with at most 90 nodes. In large networks with 200 nodes, the maximum gap between OUED and GND is only 0.191 kb/s. Lastly, OUED runs at least five times faster than GND.

dc.publisherIEEE
dc.titleOn Maximizing Min Flow Rates in Rechargeable Wireless Sensor Networks
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.issn1551-3203
dcterms.source.titleIEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
curtin.departmentDepartment of Computing
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