Rechargeable Sensor Networks: Technology, Theory, And Application - Introducing Energy Harvesting To Sensor Networks

by Jiming Chen, Shibo He, Youxian Sun

Overview

The harvesting of energy from ambient energy sources to power electronic devices has been recognized as a promising solution to the issue of powering the ever-growing number of mobile devices around us.Key technologies in the rapidly growing field of energy harvesting focus on developing solutions to capture ambient energy surrounding the mobile devices and convert it into usable electrical energy for the purpose of recharging said devices. Achieving a sustainable network lifetime via battery-aware designs brings forth a new frontier for energy optimization techniques. These techniques had, in their early stages, resulted in the development of low-power hardware designs. Today, they have evolved into power-aware designs and even battery-aware designs.This book covers recent results in the field of rechargeable sensor networks, including technologies and protocol designs to enable harvesting energy from alternative energy sources such as vibrations, temperature variations, wind, solar, and biochemical energy and passive human power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814525459
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/24/2014
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Wind Energy Harvesting for Recharging Wireless Sensor Nodes: Brief Review and A Case Study Yen Kheng Tan Dibin Zhu Steve Beeby 1

1 Introduction 1

2 Wind Energy Harvesting from Wind Turbines 2

3 Energy Harvesting from Flow-Induced Vibration 9

4 Energy Harvesting from Helmholtz Resonators 16

5 Comparisons 17

6 A Case Study on a Novel Method of Harvesting Wind Energy Through Piezoelectric Vibration for Low-Power Autonomous Sensors 19

7 Conclusions 27

Acknowledgments 28

References 28

2 Rechargeable Sensor Networks with Magnetic Resonant Coupling Liguang Xie Yi Shi Y. Thomas Hou Wenjing Lou Hanif D. Sherali Huaibei Zhou 31

1 Introduction 31

2 Single-Node Charging for a Sparse WSN 36

3 Multinode Charging for a Dense WSN 44

4 Bundling Mobile Base Station and Magnetic Resonant Coupling 59

5 Summary 66

Acknowledgments 66

References 67

3 Cross-Layer Resource Allocation in Energy-Harvesting Sensor Networks Zhoujia Mao C. Emre Koksal Ness B. Shroff 69

1 Introduction 69

2 Static Resource Allocation with Renewable Energy 71

3 Dynamic Resource Allocation with Renewable Energy 82

4 Conclusions 104

Acknowledgments 104

References 105

4 Energy-Harvesting Technique and Management for Wireless Sensor Networks Jianhui Zhang Xiangyang Li 107

1 Introduction 108

2 Energy-Harvesting Module 109

3 Design of Solar-Harvesting Module 114

4 Energy Management in Energy-Harvesting WSNs 132

5 Duty Cycling under Energy Constraint 141

6 Summary 161

Acknowledgments 163

References 163

5 Information Capacity of an AWGN Channel Powered by an Energy-Harvesting Source R. Rajesh P. K. Deekshith Vinod Sharma 169

1 Introduction 170

2 Related Work 171

3 Capacity of an AWGN Channel with an Energy-Harvesting Transmitter 173

4 Capacity with Processor Energy (PE) 177

5 Achievable Rate with Energy Inefficiencies 179

6 Fading AWGN Channel 181

7 Combining Information and Queuing Theory 188

8 Finite Buffer 190

9 Multiple Access Channel 193

10 Conclusions 198

Appendix A Proof of Theorem 1 199

References 200

6 Energy Harvesting in Wireless Sensor Networks Naathalie Mitton Riaan Wolhuter 205

1 Introduction 205

2 Overview of a Sensor Node 207

3 Energy Harvesting 212

4 Benefits and Drawbacks 215

5 Energy-Harvesting Management 215

6 Discussion 218

Bibliography 219

7 Topology Control for Wireless Sensor Networks and Ad Hoc Networks Sunil Jardosh 221

1 Overview 221

2 Network Topology 223

3 Need for Topology Control 225

4 Graph Theory-Based Approach 229

5 Algorithms, Dominating Set and Minimum Connected Dominating Set, Optimization Algorithms 233

6 Cross-Layer-Based Approach 238

7 Future Research Direction 242

References 243

8 An Evolutionary Game Approach for Rechargeable Sensor Networks Majed Haddad Eitan Altman Dicter Fiems Julien Gailard 247

1 Introduction 247

2 Model 249

3 Properties of the Fitness 251

4 Evolutionary Stable Strategies 253

5 Computing the Equilibrium 255

6 What About Recharging? 260

7 Dynamics 263

8 Numerical Results 265

9 Discussion and Conclusions 272

References 273

9 Marine Sediment Energy Harvesting for Sustainable Underwater Sensor Networks Baikun Li Lei Wang Jun-Hong Cui 275

1 Introduction 275

2 Marine Sediment Energy Harvesting via MFCs 277

3 Design of Marine Sediment MFCs 283

4 Power Management and System Integration with MFCs 296

5 Conclusions 299

References 299

10 Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Network in the Smart Grid Melike Erol-Kantarci Hussein T. Mouftah 303

1 Introduction 303

2 Smart Grid Monitoring with Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks 306

3 RF Energy-Harvesting Basics 308

4 RF Energy Harvesting for Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks for Smart Grid Deployments 310

5 Performance Evaluation 317

6 Summary and Open Issues 321

References 323

11 Energy-Harvesting Methods for Medical Devices Pedro Dinis Garpar Virginie Felizardo Nuno M. Garcia 327

1 Introduction 327

2 Harvesting Methods 332

3 Medical Applications 336

4 Current Status and Future Trends 346

5 Conclusions 354

References 355

Index 357