Multi-node wireless energy charging in sensor networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 437-450

  Xie, Liguang ^a   Shi, Yi ^a   Hou, Y Thomas ^a   Lou, Wenjing ^a   Sherali, Hanif D ^a   Midkiff, Scott F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimization; scalability; wireless energy transfer; wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; MOBILE SECURITY; OPTIMIZATION; SCALABILITY; SENSOR NODES;

MAGNETIC RESONANT COUPLINGS; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK; REFORMULATION LINEARIZATION TECHNIQUE; SCALABILITY PROBLEMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL PLANE; WIRELESS CHARGING VEHICLES; WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSFERS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 85028207870     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2014.2303979     Document Type: Article

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