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An Optimal Lifetime Utility Routing for 5G and Energy-Harvesting Wireless Networks
Gina Martinez, Shufang Li, Chi Zhou
ZTE Communications    2015, 13 (1): 35-42.   DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2015.01.005
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Harvesting energy from environmental sources such as solar and wind can mitigate or solve the limited-energy problem in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we propose an energy-harvest-aware route-selection method that incorporates harvest availability properties and energy storage capacity limits into the routing decisions. The harvest-aware routing problem is formulated as a linear program with a utility-based objective function that balances the two conflicting routing objectives of maximum total and maximum minimum residual network energy. The simulation results show that doing so achieves a longer network lifetime, defined as the time-to-first-node-death in the network. Additionally, most existing energy-harvesting routing algorithms route each traffic flow independently from each other. The LP formulation allows for a joint optimization of multiple traffic flows. Better residual energy statistics are also achieved by such joint consideration compared to independent optimization of each commodity.
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