Abstract
Energy Harvesting (EH) provides a promising solution to
one of the biggest problems faced by Wireless Sensor Net-
works (WSN), namely the energy supply. By harvesting en-
ergy from the surrounding environment, the sensors can have
an innite lifetime without any needs for battery recharge or
replacement. Battery-powered WSNs are typically designed
to maximize the energy conservation in order to postpone as
much as possible the inevitable battery depletion. Instead,
EH-WSNs are being designed on a dierent principle. The
focus is on maximizing the network performance while op-
erating at a state that is energetically sustainable. In this
paper, we present ODMAC, an on demand MAC protocol for
EH-WSNs which is able to support individual duty cycles
for nodes with dierent energy proles. Hence, each node
is able to increase its energy consumption, thus its perfor-
mance, to the level that the energy consumed is at the same
level to the energy harvested. The protocol is implemented
and evaluated using the OPNET simulator [7].
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Eighth ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN’11) |
| Place of Publication | Miami Beach |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Pages | 49-56 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-0900-4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
| Event | Eighth ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks - Miami Beach, United States Duration: 31 Oct 2011 → 4 Nov 2011 Conference number: 8 |
Conference
| Conference | Eighth ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks |
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| Number | 8 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Miami Beach |
| Period | 31/10/2011 → 04/11/2011 |
