Project Info

Wireless Communication Networks with Energy Cooperation

Payam Nayeri| pnayeri@mines.edu

This project aims to maximize the system lifetime and quality of data of wireless communication networks by utilizing the electromagnetic energy in the communication channel. As such it has the potential to create sustainable wireless networks which is of significant interest for Internet of Things (IoT).
The specific objectives of this research are:

To study the impact of transmission power level on BER, energy efficiency curve, transmission range, interfere range
To find out how/whether WEH nodes are different from conventional wireless motes
To study the lifetime of energy harvesting system
Different lifetime definitions
Network lifetime based on number of alive nodes
Network lifetime based on sensor coverage
Network lifetime based on connectivity
Network lifetime based on application QoS requirements
Case studies
no energy harvesting
– with energy harvesting, nodes transmit at the most efficient power level
– with energy harvesting, nodes transmit at the maximum power level
Develop indoor propagation models for networks

More Information

http://inside.mines.edu/~pnayeri/
Isabel Dietrich and Falko Dressler, On the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks,
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2009.
Jerry Zhao and Ramesh Govindan, Understanding packet delivery performance in dense wireless sensor networks, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2003

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