An analytical approach to the design of energy harvesting wireless sensor nodes

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4010-4024

  Zhang, Shenqiu ^a   Seyedi, Alireza ^b   Sikdar, Biplab ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

average delay; Energy harvesting; probability of loss; rechargeable sensors; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; AVERAGE DELAY; BATTERY CAPACITY; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; RECHARGEABLE SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84883278820     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.052213.121561     Document Type: Article

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