Relay Selection Scheme with Harvested Solar Energy Prediction for Solar-Powered Wireless Sensor Networks

Our goal is to make efficient use of the energy and therefore achieve network operation with a high packet delivery ratio, regardless of day, night and weather variations, in solar powered wireless sensor networks. One method to optimize the consumption energy in the entire network is to employ a cooperative transmission scheme in which a node uses another node as a relay, when sending its data. If we do not consider the changes in the harvested energy in the network, the packet delivery ratio declines during nights and cloudy days. In this paper, however, we propose a new relay selection scheme with harvested solar energy prediction to maintain the required high packet delivery ratio by reducing the effect of the weather variations. 1. は じ め に