Design and performance analysis of MAC schemes for wireless sensor networks powered by ambient energy harvesting

Ad Hoc Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 300-323

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

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CSMA; Energy harvesting; Medium access control; Probabilistic polling; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CSMA; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY HARVESTER; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FAIRNESS INDEX; HARDWARE FAILURES; HIGH THROUGHPUT; INTER-ARRIVAL TIME; MAC PROTOCOL; MEDIUM ACCESS; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC POLLING; SENSOR DATA; SOURCE NODES; SUPER CAPACITOR; TIME-DIFFERENCES; WIRELESS SENSOR;

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 78651359625     PISSN: 15708705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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