• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.359-364
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• 2012

Harvesting energy from the environment is essential for many applications to slow down the deterioration of energy of the devices in sensor networks and in general, the network itself. Energy from the environment is an inexhaustible supply which, if properly managed and harvested from the sources, can allow the system to last for a longer period - more than the expected lifetime at the time of deployment, or even last indefinitely. The goal of this study is to develop a simple algorithm for ns-2 to simulate energy harvesting in wireless sensor network simulations. The algorithm is implemented in the energy module of the simulator. Energy harvesting algorithms have not yet been developed for ns-2. This study will greatly contribute to the existing knowledge of simulating wireless sensor networks with energy harvesting capabilities in ns-2. This paper will also serve as a basis for future research papers that make use of energy harvesting.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.504-521
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• 2016

Recently, energy harvesting technology has been integrated into wireless sensor networks to ameliorate the nodes' energy limitation problem. In theory, the wireless sensor node equipped with an energy harvesting module can work permanently until hardware failures happen. However, due to the change of power supply, the traditional hierarchical network routing protocol can not be effectively adopted in energy harvesting wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we improve the Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) protocol to make it suitable for the energy harvesting wireless sensor networks. Specifically, the cluster heads are selected according to the estimation of nodes' harvested energy and consumed energy. Preference is given to the nodes with high harvested energy while taking the energy consumption rate into account. The utilization of harvested energy is mathematically formulated as a max-min optimization problem which maximizes the minimum energy conservation of each node. We have proved that maximizing the minimum energy conservation is an NP-hard problem theoretically. Thus, a polynomial time algorithm has been proposed to derive the near-optimal performance. Extensive simulation results show that our proposed routing scheme outperforms previous works in terms of energy conservation and balanced distribution.

• Journal of Semiconductor Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.13-30
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• 2020

Radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting technology have become a reliable and promising alternative to extend the lifetime of power-constrained wireless networks by eliminating the need for batteries. This emerging technology enables the low-power wireless devices to be self-sustaining and eco-friendly by scavenging RF energy from ambient environment or dedicated energy sources. These attributes make RF energy harvesting technology feasible and attractive to an extended range of applications. However, despite being the most reliable energy harvesting technology, there are several challenges (especially power conversion efficiency, output DC voltage and sensitivity) poised for the implementation of RF energy harvesting systems. In this article, a detailed literature on RF energy harvesting technology has been surveyed to provide guidance for RF energy harvesters design. Since signal strength of the received RF power is limited and weak, high efficiency state-of-the-art RF energy harvesters are required to design for providing sufficient DC supply voltage to wireless networks. Therefore, various designs and their trade-offs with comprehensive analysis for RF energy harvesters have been discussed. This paper can serve as a good reference for the researchers to catch new research topics in the field of RF energy harvesting.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2015

Powering wireless sensors with energy harvested from the environment is coming of age due to the increasing power densities of both storage and harvesting devices and the electronics performing energy efficient energy conversion. In order to maximize the functionality of the wireless sensor network, minimize missing packets, minimize latency and prevent the waste of energy, problems like congestion and inefficient energy usage must be addressed. Many sleep-awake protocols and efficient message priority techniques have been developed to properly manage the energy of the nodes and to minimize congestion. For a WSN that is operating in a strictly energy constrained environment, an energy-efficient transmission strategy is necessary. In this paper, we present a novel transmission priority decision scheme for a heterogeneous body sensor network composed of normal nodes and an energy harvesting node that acts as a cluster head. The energy harvesting node's decision whether or not to clear a normal node for sending is based on a set of metrics which includes the energy harvesting node's remaining energy, the total harvested energy, the type of message in a normal node's queue and finally, the implementation context of the wireless sensor network.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2021

Energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks(EH-WSNs) can collect energy from the environment and overcome the technical limitations of existing power. Since the transmission distance in a wireless sensor network is limited, the data are delivered to the destination node through multi-hop routing. In EH-WSNs, the routing protocol should consider the power situations of nodes, which is determined by the remaining power and energy-harvesting rate. In addition, in applications such as environmental monitoring, when there are urgent data, the routing protocol should be able to transmit it stably and quickly. This paper proposes an adaptive routing protocol that satisfies different requirements of normal and urgent data. To extend network lifetime, the proposed routing protocol reduces power imbalance for normal data and also minimizes transmission latency by controlling the transmission power for urgent data. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive routing can improve network lifetime by mitigating the power imbalance and greatly reduce the transmission delay of urgent data.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제68권1호
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• pp.98-101
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose the power-based pipelined-forwarding MAC protocol which can select relay nodes according to the residual power and energy harvesting rate in EH-WSN (energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks). The proposed MAC follows a pipelined-forwarding scheme in which nodes repeatedly sleep and wake up in an EH-WSN environment and data is continuously transmitted from a high-level node to a low-level node. The sleep interval is adaptively controlled so that nodes with low energy harvesting rate can be charged sufficiently, thereby minimizing the transmission delay and increasing the network lifetime. Simulation shows that the proposed MAC protocol improves the balance of residual power and network lifetime.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose an adaptive data aggregation and compression scheme for wireless sensor networks with energy-harvesting nodes, which increases the amount of data arrived at the sink node by efficient use of the harvested energy. In energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks, sensor nodes can have more than necessary energy because they harvest energy from environments continuously. In the proposed scheme, when a node judges that there is surplus energy by estimating its residual energy, the node compresses and transmits the aggregated data so far. Conversely, if the residual energy is estimated to be depleted, the node turns off its transceiver and collects only its own sensory data to reduce its energy consumption. As a result, this scheme increases the amount of data collected at the sink node by preventing the blackout of relay nodes and facilitating data transmission. Through simulation, we show that the proposed scheme suppresses the occurrence of blackout nodes and collect the largest amount of data at the sink node compared to previous schemes.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.105-116
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• 2019

Recently, there has been an increase in research on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because they are easy to deploy in applications such as internet-of-things (IoT) and body area networks. However, WSNs have constraints in terms of power, quality-of-service (QoS), computation, and others. To overcome the power constraint issues, wireless energy harvesting has been introduced into WSNs, the application of which has been the focus of many studies. Additionally, to improve system performance in terms of achievable rate, cooperative networks are also being explored in WSNs. We present a review on current research in the area of energy harvesting in WSNs, specifically on the application of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a cooperative sensor network. In addition, we discuss possible future extensions of SWIPT and cooperative networks in WSNs.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.477-485
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• 2015

최근 무선 센서 네트워크(Wireless sensor network, WSN)의 제한된 수명을 근본적으로 해결하기 위하여 에너지 수집형 노드를 사용한 WSN 연구가 진행되고 있다. 하지만, 이러한 연구를 원활히 지원하기 위한 에너지 수집형 WSN 시뮬레이터는 거의 없는 상태이다. 에너지 수집형 WSN을 위한 시뮬레이터들은 기존의 배터리 기반 WSN 시뮬레이터의 에너지 모델과는 달리, 에너지 수집 모델과 소비 모델이 결합된 새로운 에너지 모델을 필요로 한다. 아울러 새로운 프로토콜 제안 시, 제안된 프로토콜의 성능과 비교할 수 있는 대표적인 에너지 수집형 WSN을 위한 라우팅 및 MAC 프로토콜들이 포함되어 있어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 환경 에너지 중 가장 널리 사용되는 태양 에너지 기반의 센서 노드 및 네트워크를 지원하는 시뮬레이터를 설계하고 구현하였다. 제안하는 시뮬레이터는 날씨 및 계절 등의 외부환경과 솔라셀 및 에너지 저장 장치 등의 내부 환경 특성을 고려하여 설계된 에너지 수집 모듈이 구현 되어있고, 태양 에너지 기반 무선 센서 네트워크를 위한 대표적인 라우팅 및 MAC 프로토콜 기법들이 구현 되어 있다. 아울러 사용자 친화형 GUI를 제공하여 손쉬운 사용이 가능하다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.215-223
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• 2015

에너지 하베스팅 기술은 에너지가 제약적인 환경에 있는 통신 기기가 정보 송신에 필요한 에너지를 얻는 충전 기술이다. 최근에 제안된 에너지 하베스팅 기술은 주변의 무선 고주파 신호로부터 에너지를 저장한다. 대표적으로 시간 전환 (time switching, TS) 과 전력 분할 (power splitting, PS) 의 기술이 있다. 본 논문은 무선 인지 중계 네트워크에서 이차 사용자의 중계기가 정보 전송을 위해 에너지 하베스팅 기술을 사용할 때 최적의 에너지 하베스팅 시간을 분배하는 방법을 제안한다. 이차 사용자의 중계기는 시간 전환 기술을 사용하여 이차 사용자의 송신기에서 보낸 신호로부터 정보와 에너지를 전달받는다. 이차 사용자의 순시적 처리량을 최대화 하기 위하여 이차 사용자 중계기의 하베스팅 시간을 최적화 한다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 고정된 하베스팅 시간을 사용하는 방식보다 본 논문에서 제안한 방법으로 구한 최적의 하베스팅 시간을 사용하는 것이 더 큰 순시적 처리량을 얻음을 확인하였다.