Title
Distributed flow optimization control for energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks
Abstract
This paper proposes a distributed flow-based routing technique in energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks (EHWSNs) in order to balance the energy consumptions by sending packets assigned to routers that are sent from sensors to base stations. The objective of the flow optimization problem is to minimize the total load factors of all the nodes and wireless links, which leads to sustainable management of the sensor networks that exploit renewable power from energy harvesting systems. We propose a novel algorithm based on tie-set graph theory where the underlying graph of an EHWSN is divided into a set of independent loops to significantly reduce the topological complexity, which simplifies the flow optimization problem to be solved in a distributed manner. Simulation experiments against the shortest-path and multi-path algorithms demonstrate that optimized packet flows by the proposed method realize the sustainable EHWSNs and maintain the useful life of storage devices with modest increase in total energy consumption by routings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICC.2014.6883960
Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
energy harvesting,graph theory,optimisation,set theory,telecommunication network routing,wireless sensor networks,EHWSN,distributed flow optimization control,distributed flow-based routing technique,energy consumptions,energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks,independent loops,multipath algorithms,shortest-path algorithm,sustainable management,tie-set graph theory,topological complexity
Graph theory,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Wireless,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Energy harvesting,Mobile wireless sensor network,Energy consumption,Wireless sensor network,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
0
0.34
References 
Authors
11
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kiyoshi Nakayama1277.51
Nga Dang2203.52
Lubomir F. Bic314719.23
Michael B. Dillencourt449857.58
Elaheh Bozorgzadeh563037.93
Nalini Venkatasubramanian623215.42