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

本项目的目标是开发一个新的无线传感器网络框架，该框架利用最新的无线能量传输技术与移动性的联合设计，以实现低系统成本的高性能，并保持网络的永久运行。智力价值：智力价值是在无线充电传感器网络中采用最新的无线能量传输，受控移动性用于能量补充和数据收集技术。本研究开发了一种新的综合方法来解决几个密切相关的问题：（1）高效和可扩展的能源信息收集;（2）能源补充和能源感知数据收集;（3）传感器任务分配与质量保证。该项目开发了一类新的算法，提高数据吞吐量，网络效用，监控质量，最重要的是，保证网络的永久运行。所提出的工作结合了协议设计，算法设计，概率建模，组合优化，软件仿真和测试平台的实现，进行全面的研究对上述问题。更广泛的影响：更广泛的影响是提供一个新的范式，可靠的电源无线传感器网络是传统的传感器网络的变革。该项目将有利于广泛的应用，包括军事，环境，医疗保健，目标跟踪和商业商业领域。该项目的重要成果将通过会议、期刊和网站访问的方式传播给研究界，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传播给工业界。

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.