Geometric Analysis-Based Cluster Head Selection for Sectorized Wireless Powered Sensor Networks

Abstract

In this letter, we consider a sectorized wireless powered sensor network (WPSN), wherein sensor nodes, which are clustered based on sectors, transmit data to the cluster head (CH) using energy harvested from a hybrid access point. We construct a system model for this sectorized WPSN and formulate an optimization problem to obtain an optimal CH that maximizes the achievable transmission rate of sensing data. To obtain the optimal CH with low overhead and complexity, we perform an asymptotic geometric analysis (GA) that determines the optimal coordinates of the CH in the considered area of the sector such that only a small number of sensor nodes near this optimal coordinates need to be investigated. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed GA-based CH selection method is close to the optimal performance exhibited by exhaustive search; moreover, the proposed method substantially reduces the channel feedback overhead.