Abstract
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Energy Harvesting (EH) is emerging as a promising solution to realize the energy-efficient green communications. Non-EH nodes can save the energy by using EH nodes as relaying nodes, and relaying with the better throughput is required to efficiently consume the precious energy. In most cases, the EH charging rate gets low since current charging techniques cannot convert the environmental energy well, so it is important to achieve high performance in low charging rate. In this paper, we propose an adaptive relay selection scheme based on the average charging rate to achieve better throughput even in low charging rate. In our scheme, each node adaptively changes the criterion to be a relaying candidate based on the current charging rate; an EH node whose charging rate is low raises the threshold to save the precious energy for better channel condition. By the computer simulation, we show that our proposed relay selection scheme achieves the better throughput than that of the conventional schemes in low charging rate, which is the more realistic condition.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2015 12th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2015 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Pages | 696-701 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781479963904 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 Jul 14 |
Event | 2015 12th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2015 - Las Vegas, United States Duration: 2015 Jan 9 → 2015 Jan 12 |
Other
Other | 2015 12th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2015 |
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Country | United States |
City | Las Vegas |
Period | 15/1/9 → 15/1/12 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications