Sensor-mission assignment in wireless sensor networks with energy harvesting

Tom La Porta, Chiara Petrioli, Dora Spenza

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Abstract

Sensor mission assignment concerns matching the sensing resources of a wireless sensor network (WSN) to appropriate tasks (missions), which may come to the network dynamically. Although solutions for WSNs with battery-operated nodes have been proposed for this problem, no attention has been given to networks whose nodes have energy harvesting capabilities, which impose quite a different energy model. In this paper we address this problem by providing both an analytical model and a distributed heuristic, called EN-MASSE, for energy harvesting WSNs. The objective of both model and EN-MASSE is to maximize the profit of the network, fully exploiting the harvesting technologies, while ensuring the execution of the most critical missions within a given target WSN lifetime. The performance of EN-MASSE is evaluated by simulations based on real solar energy traces. Our experiments show that EN-MASSE behaves very closely to the optimum provided by our model and significantly outperforms previously proposed solutions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2011 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2011
Pages413-421
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2011 - Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Duration: Jun 27 2011Jun 30 2011

Publication series

Name2011 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2011

Other

Other2011 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySalt Lake City, UT
Period6/27/116/30/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Communication

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