Wireless-Powered Sensor Networks: How to Realize

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 221-234

  Choi, Kae Won ^a   Ginting, Lorenz ^b   Rosyady, Phisca Aditya ^b   Aziz, Arif Abdul ^b   Kim, Dong In ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Duty cycling; energy beamforming; energy harvesting; microwave power transfer; RF energy transfer; sensor network; WPCN

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROWAVE SENSORS; PROPORTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; RECTENNAS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TESTBEDS; TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; DUTY CYCLE CONTROL; DUTY-CYCLING; MICROWAVE POWER; MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS; PROPORTIONAL INTEGRAL DERIVATIVE CONTROLLERS; RF ENERGIES; WPCN;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 85009725573     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2016.2621766     Document Type: Article

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