Recently, benefiting from rapid development of energy harvesting technologies, the research trend of wireless sensor networks has shifted from the battery‐powered network to the one that can harvest energy from ambient environments. In such networks, a proper use of harvested energy poses plenty of challenges caused by numerous influence factors and complex application environments. Although numerous works have been based on the energy status of sensor nodes, no work refers to the issue of minimizing the overall data transmission cost by adjusting transmission power of nodes in energy‐harvesting wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we consider the optimization problem of deriving the energy‐neutral minimum cost paths between the source nodes and the sink node. By introducing the concept of energy‐neutral operation, we first propose a polynomial‐time optimal algorithm for finding the optimal path from a single source to the sink by adjusting the transmission powers. Based on the work earlier, another polynomial‐time algorithm is further proposed for finding the approximated optimal paths from multiple sources to the sink node. Also, we analyze the network capacity and present a near‐optimal algorithm based on the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm for approaching the maximum flow in the given network. We have validated our algorithms by various numerical results in terms of path capacity, least energy of nodes, energy ratio, and path cost. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms achieve significant performance enhancements over existing schemes. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Optimizing Sectorized Wireless Networks: Model, Analysis, and Algorithm
Future wireless networks need to support the increasing demands for high data rates and improved coverage. One promising solution is sectorization, where an infrastructure node (e.g., a base station) is equipped with multiple sectors employing directional communication. Although the concept of sectorization is not new, it is critical to fully understand the potential of sectorized networks, such as the rate gain achieved when multiple sectors can be simultaneously activated. In this paper, we focus on sectorized wireless networks, where sectorized infrastructure nodes with beam-steering capabilities form a multi-hop mesh network for data forwarding and routing. We present a sectorized node model and characterize the capacity region of these sectorized networks. We define the flow extension ratio and the corresponding sectorization gain, which quantitatively measure the performance gain introduced by node sectorization as a function of the network flow. Our objective is to find the optimal sectorization of each node that achieves the maximum flow extension ratio, and thus the sectorization gain. Towards this goal, we formulate the corresponding optimization problem and develop an efficient distributed algorithm that obtains the node sectorization under a given network flow with an approximation ratio of 2/3. Through extensive simulations, we evaluate the sectorization gain and the performance of the proposed algorithm in various network scenarios with varying network flows. The simulation results show that the approximate sectorization gain increases sublinearly as a function of the number of sectors per node.
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- ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc’23)
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