Building High-Performance Perpetual Wireless Sensor Networks Through Mobile Energy Replenishment

该项目的目标是开发一种新的无线传感器网络框架，该框架利用最新的无线电力传输技术与移动性的联合设计，以低系统成本实现高性能，并保持网络的永久运行。智能优点：智能优点是在无线可充电传感器网络中采用最新的无线电力传输、可控制的移动能量补充和数据收集技术。本研究开发了一种新的集成方法来解决几个紧密耦合的问题：(1)高效和可扩展的能源信息收集；(2)能量补充和能量感知数据收集；(3)具有质量保证的传感器任务分配。本课题开发了一种新的算法，提高了数据吞吐量、网络利用率、监控质量，最重要的是保证了网络的永久运行。本文结合协议设计、算法设计、概率建模、组合优化、软件仿真和试验台实现，对上述问题进行了全面的研究。更广泛的影响：更广泛的影响是为无线传感器网络提供可靠供电的新范例，这是传统传感器网络的变革。该项目将有利于广泛的应用，包括军事、环境、保健、目标跟踪和商业业务领域。该项目的重要发现将通过会议、期刊和网站向研究界传播，并通过纽约州无线和信息技术卓越中心促进工业界和学术界之间的伙伴关系向工业界传播。

The objective of this project is to develop a novel framework for wireless sensor networks which exploits a joint design of the latest wireless power transfer technology with mobility to achieve high performance with low system cost and maintain perpetual operation of the network.Intellectual merit:The intellectual merit is to adopt the latest wireless power transfer, controlled mobility for energy replenishment and data gathering techniques in wireless rechargeable sensor networks. This research develops a novel integrated approach to addressing several closely coupled issues: (1) Efficient and scalable energy information collection; (2) Energy replenishment and energy-aware data collection; (3) Sensor-mission assignment with quality assurance. This project develops a new class of algorithms that improve data throughput, network utility, surveillance quality, and most importantly, guarantee the perpetual operation of network. The proposed work combines protocol design, algorithm design, probability modeling, combinatorial optimizations, software simulations and testbed implementations to conduct a full-scale study on the above issues.Broader impacts: The broader impacts are to provide a new paradigm to reliably power wireless sensor networks which is transformative to conventional sensor networks. This project would be beneficial to a wide spectrum of applications, including military, environmental, health care, target tracking and commercial business areas. The important findings of this project will be disseminated to the research community by ways of conferences, journals, and web site access, and to the industry by facilitating the partnership between the industry and the academia through New York State Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology.