Routing and relay node placement in wireless sensor networks powered by ambient energy harvesting

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Eu, Zhi Ang ^a   Tan, Hwee Pink ^b   Seah, Winston K G ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ambient energy harvesting; Relay node placement; Routing algorithm; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; AMBIENT ENERGY HARVESTING; DATA DELIVERY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY HARVESTING; GEOGRAPHIC ROUTING; GOOD PUT; HOP COUNT; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; NON-RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; OPTIMAL COMBINATION; OPTIMAL ROUTING ALGORITHM; PERFORMANCE METRICES; PERFORMANCE METRICS; RELAY NODE PLACEMENT; SENDING RATE; SIMULATION RESULT; STRING TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; HARVESTING; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; OPTIMIZATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TOPOLOGY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70349188534     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2009.4917956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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