Abstract
In the past years, the energy constraint problem is known as a design issue of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to equipping the sensor nodes with limited power supplies. During the last few years, Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs) have gained researchers attention. In a WRSN, the sensor nodes are equipped with RF circuits, which enables them to receive energy from Wireless Mobile Chargers (WMC). However, most of the existing wireless charging algorithms consider the unlimited power budget for WMCs, which is the opposite of feasibility of a real network environment. Likewise, most of the previous works fail to take full advantage of WMC as it starts recharging the nodes when their energy level reaches a threshold, which leads to increasing the inactive time of WMC. Moreover, although previous works employed WMCs, the network lifetime is limited. However, optimal division of the energy of WMC among nodes can guarantee the perpetual network operation. Therefore, proposing an efficient method that jointly solves these challenges is required. In this paper, a new Fair Energy Division Scheme (FEDS) is presented, which undertakes the permanent network operation by optimizing the energy division at the beginning of each cycle. Simulation results exhibit that FEDS achieves perpetual network lifetime. In addition, the proposed scheme improves energy efficiency, (25%) compared to Uneven Cluster-based Mobile Charging (UCMC) and (75%) compared to Nearest-Job-Next Preemption NJNP; travelling time of WMC, (50%) compared to UCMC and (75%) compared to NJNP. In conclusion, the proposed protocol significantly improves network.
Highlights
A Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs) consists of three main components: a static Base Station (BS), static sensor nodes equipped with RF circuits [30], and Wireless Mobile Chargers (WMC)(s)
Fair energy division technique is employed to recharge the nodes in such a way that each node has a share in the energy of a WMC in such a that the more energy is consumed, the more energy is assigned to the nodes
In this work, a new Fair Energy Division Scheme (FEDS) is presented for a cluster-based WRSN, which aims to permanentize the operation of Cluster Heads (CH) and Member Nodes (MN)
Summary
In the prior works [4], [12], it is considered that WMC starts to charge the nodes when their energy level reaches a threshold, which leads to increase the idle time of WMC and reduce the network performance. In this type of the networks, it is necessary to dispatch two WMCs for charging the Cluster Heads (CH) and Member Nodes (MN) separately, which leads to achieving easier network management, latency reduction, and enhance the quality of service This issue has not been considered in prior clustered WRSN-based schemes. 4. Unlike previous cluster-based WRSNs, the proposed scheme dispatches two separate WMCs to recharge the CHs and MNs individually, which results in easier network management, enhance the quality of service, and latency reduction.
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