A classification of solutions for the energy limitation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have known a tremendous and accentuated development in recent past and in present. Because in almost all applications the sensors must be autonomous, the lifetime of a WSN highly depends on the sensors' energy. The main limitation in designing and developing a WSN is the energy problem since battery replenishment or replacement is difficult or impossible. This paper presents an overview on the solutions for the energy limitation. The energy consumption sources are outlined.

[1]  Samir Khuller,et al.  Energy Efficient Monitoring in Sensor Networks , 2010, Algorithmica.

[2]  Andreas Willig,et al.  Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks , 2005 .

[3]  Rajesh Kumar,et al.  Efficient solar energy harvester for wireless sensor nodes , 2010, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems.

[4]  Samir Khuller,et al.  Energy Efficient Monitoring in Sensor Networks , 2008, LATIN.

[5]  Yang Yang,et al.  Battery recovery aware sensor networks , 2009, 2009 7th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks.

[6]  Mani B. Srivastava,et al.  Emerging techniques for long lived wireless sensor networks , 2006, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[7]  Purushottam Kulkarni,et al.  Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes: Survey and Implications , 2011, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

[8]  Richard R. Brooks.  Handbook of Sensor Networks: Compact Wireless and Wired Sensing Systems , 2008 .

[9]  Mani B. Srivastava,et al.  Power management in energy harvesting sensor networks , 2007, TECS.

[10]  Luca Benini,et al.  An Efficient Solar Energy Harvester for Wireless Sensor Nodes , 2008, 2008 Design, Automation and Test in Europe.

[11]  J. M. Gilbert,et al.  Comparison of energy harvesting systems for wireless sensor networks , 2008, Int. J. Autom. Comput..

[12]  Abdul Waheed Khan,et al.  Sensors Lifetime Enhancement Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks - A Survey , 2010, ArXiv.

[13]  Jan M. Rabaey,et al.  A study of low level vibrations as a power source for wireless sensor nodes , 2003, Comput. Commun..

[14]  Baochun Li,et al.  On the fundamental capacity and lifetime limits of energy-constrained wireless sensor networks , 2004, Proceedings. RTAS 2004. 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, 2004..

[15]  Dinesh Verma,et al.  A survey of sensor selection schemes in wireless sensor networks , 2007, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing.

[16]  Miodrag Potkonjak,et al.  Power efficient organization of wireless sensor networks , 2001, ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on Communications. Conference Record (Cat. No.01CH37240).

[17]  Joseph A. Paradiso,et al.  A Compact, Wireless, Self-Powered Pushbutton Controller , 2001, UbiComp.

[18]  Mario Di Francesco,et al.  Energy conservation in wireless sensor networks: A survey , 2009, Ad Hoc Networks.

[19]  William Plowden.  The Compact , 2003 .