Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-85803-7
Ph.D.
Electrical Engineering
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2018
Wireless sensor networks can potentially achieve perpetual maintenance-free operation by harnessing ambient energy from the environment. However, most environmental energy sources, such as vibrations, heat, radio frequency (RF) are usually inadequate and sporadic in nature. Therefore, sensor nodes that rely solely on such environmental resources, suffer from frequent and random energy outages. This energy outage leads to intermittent connectivity and induces a large delay in multi-hop transmission paradigms.
Electrical engineering
Applied sciences;Cooperative relaying;Intermittent connectivity;MAC protocols;Opportunistic routing;RF energy harvesting;Wireless sensor networks