Improving Application Availability in Wireless Sensor Networks with Energy-Harvesting Capability

Author

Rentifis, Ilias ; Tziritas, Nikos ; Lampsas, Petros ; Lalis, Spyros ; Loukopoulos, Thanasis

Author_Institution

Comput. & Commun. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

fYear

2012

fDate

14-16 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

122

Lastpage

127

Abstract

We assume a wireless sensor and actuator network with nodes that can harvest energy from the environment, and an application deployed in this network, which is structured as a set of cooperating mobile components that can be placed on any node that provides the required sensor and actuator resources. We propose algorithms that take into account the energy consumption rate of agents as well as energy reserves and harvesting rate of nodes, and decide about the migration of agents in order to improve application availability. Initial evaluation results via simulation show that application availability can be greatly improved compared to having a static application placement.

Keywords

energy harvesting; mobile agents; power consumption; sensor placement; telecommunication power management; wireless sensor networks; application availability; energy consumption rate; energy harvesting; mobile agent; mobile component cooperation; node deployment; static application placement; wireless actuator network; wireless sensor network; Availability; Batteries; Energy consumption; Heuristic algorithms; Routing; Temperature sensors; Wireless sensor networks; distributed systems; energy-awareness; mobile agents; placement algorithms; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT), 2012 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4879-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDCAT.2012.80

Filename

6589251