Maximizing charging utility with obstacles through fresnel diffraction model

C Lin, F Gao, H Dai, J Ren, L Wang… - IEEE INFOCOM 2020 …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
C Lin, F Gao, H Dai, J Ren, L Wang, G Wu
IEEE INFOCOM 2020-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2020ieeexplore.ieee.org
Benefitting from the recent breakthrough of wireless power transfer technology, Wireless
Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs) have become an important research topic. Most
prior arts focus on system performance enhancement in an ideal environment that ignores
impacts of obstacles. This contradicts with practical applications in which obstacles can be
found almost anywhere and have dramatic impacts on energy transmission. In this paper,
we concentrate on the problem of charging a practical WRSN in the presence of obstacles to …
Benefitting from the recent breakthrough of wireless power transfer technology, Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs) have become an important research topic. Most prior arts focus on system performance enhancement in an ideal environment that ignores impacts of obstacles. This contradicts with practical applications in which obstacles can be found almost anywhere and have dramatic impacts on energy transmission. In this paper, we concentrate on the problem of charging a practical WRSN in the presence of obstacles to maximize the charging utility under specific energy constraints. First, we propose a new theoretical charging model with obstacles based on Fresnel diffraction model, and conduct experiments to verify its effectiveness. Then, we propose a spatial discretization scheme to obtain a finite feasible charging position set for MC, which largely reduces computation overhead. Afterwards, we reformalize charging utility maximization with energy constraints as a submodular function maximization problem and propose a cost-efficient algorithm with approximation ratio (e-1)/2e (1 - ε) to solve it. Lastly, we demonstrate that our scheme outperforms other algorithms by at least 14.8% in terms of charging utility through test-bed experiments and extensive simulations.
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