Abstract
Wireless radio frequency (RF) energy transfer is a promising technology to provide a reliability-guaranteed power supply for wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we consider a special wireless-powered sensor network consisting of a mobile energy station that can travel through a preplanned path to charge wireless-powered sensors located in the considered area. We develop a hardware platform using off-the-shelf RF energy transfer hardware equipment to evaluate the practical performance of wireless sensor networks powered by RF energy transfer. We establish an empirical model based on our developed platform and use the empirical model to jointly optimize path planning and mobile charge scheduling for wireless-powered sensor networks. We derive the optimal policy for the mobile energy station to optimize its decisions about the path that it will travel and the subset of sensors to charge during each time period. Numerical results show that our derived policy significantly improves the performance of wireless sensor networks in different practical scenarios.
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