• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.804-812
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• 2015

Energy harvesting (EH) technology in the field of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is gaining increasing popularity through removing the burden of having to replace/recharge depleted energy sources by energy harvester devices. EH provides an alternative source of energy from the surrounding environment; therefore, by exploiting the EH process, WSNs can achieve a perpetual lifetime. In view of this, emphasis is being placed on the design of new medium access control (MAC) protocols that aim to maximize the lifetime of WSNs by using the maximum possible amount of harvested energy instead of saving any residual energy, given that the rate of energy harvested is greater than that which is consumed. Various MAC protocols with the objective of exploiting ambient energy have been proposed for energy-harvesting WSNs (EH-WSNs). In this paper, first, the fundamental properties of EH-WSN architecture are outlined. Then, several MAC protocols proposed for EH-WSNs are presented, describing their operating principles and underlying features. To give an insight into future research directions, open research issues (key ideas) with respect to design trade-offs are discussed at the end of this paper.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.670-675
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• 2018

센서네트워크의 전력문제를 해결할 수 있는 에너지 수집형 무선 센서네트워크 (EH-WSN)에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. EH-WSN에서는 에너지 수집과 소비의 균형을 맞추기 위한 on-off 듀티싸이클링에 관한 연구가 많이 진행되고 있다. 그러나 환경감시를 위한 EH-WSN에서 센싱된 데이터의 긴급성과 에너지 수집율은 네트워크의 성능을 결정하는 중요한 요소가 된다. 따라서 단순히 전력의 균형 상태를 유지하는 것 이외에 센싱된 데이터의 중요도 및 에너지 수집율에 따라 듀티싸이클 주기를 조절할 필요성이 대두된다. 본 논문에서는 환경감시를 위한 EH-WSN에서 기존의 전력만을 고려한 on-off 듀티싸이클링의 문제점을 분석하고, 센싱값의 변화율 및 크기값에 의한 센싱 데이터의 우선순위 및 에너지 수집율 등을 고려하여 적응적으로 on-off 주기를 결정하는 듀티싸이클 스케줄링 기법을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 듀티싸이클 스케줄링의 성능을 분석하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.169-178
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• 2012

In this paper, we study the advantages of using range extension cooperative transmission (CT) in multi-hop energy harvesting wireless sensor networks (EH-WSNs) from the network layer perspective. EH-WSNs rely on harvested energy, and therefore, if a required service is energy-intensive, the network may not be able to support the service successfully. We show that CT networks that utilize both range extension CT and non-CT routing can successfully support services that cannot be supported by non-CT networks. For a two-hop toy network, we show that range extension CT can provide better services than non-CT. Then, we provide a method of determining the supportable services that can be achieved by using optimal non-CT and CT routing protocols for EH-WSNs. Using our method and network simulations, we justify our claim that CT networks can provide better services than nonCT networks in EH-WSNs.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권9호
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• pp.1044-1053
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 인지 무선 (Cognitive Radio; CR) 네트워크에서 Radio Frequency (RF) 에너지 수집 (Energy Harvesting; EH) 기능을 갖는 2차 사용자 (Secondary User; SU)가 최대 2개의 서로 다른 채널을 순차적으로 센싱하여 주사용자 (Primary User; PU)가 사용하지 않고 비어 있는 채널을 확보하는 경우를 고려하였다. EH SU는 데이터를 전송하기 위해 비어 있는 채널을 정확하게 검출해야 할 뿐만 아니라 충분한 에너지를 보유하고 있어야 한다. 기존의 SU와 마찬가지로 데이터 전송에 의한 에너지 소모와 더불어 자체적으로 에너지 수집이 가능하기 때문에 EH SU의 에너지 상태는 감소와 증가를 반복하게 되며, 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 EH SU의 배터리 상태를 Markov 모델로 구축하였다. 해당 모델로부터 EH SU가 에너지를 완전히 소모할 안정상태 확률을 도출하였으며, 이에 근거하여 패킷을 성공적으로 전송할 확률을 도출하였다. 제안된 Markov 배터리 모델을 분석하기 위해 Monte-Carlo 모의실험을 진행하여 Energy Outage 확률과 패킷 전송 성능 분석의 정확성을 검증하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.1113-1116
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• 2020

In the EH-WSN(Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Network), the routing protocol must consider the power condition of nodes such as residual power and energy harvesting rate. Many EH-WSN studies have emphasized the power aspect and make the urgency of sensed data less important. However, in applications such as environmental monitoring, stability and latency become more important issues than power efficiency for urgent data. In this paper, we designed a routing protocol that can set path according to data urgency. To this end, relay nodes are determined considering the urgency of date. Nodes with poor power do not participate in routing when normal data is generated, so that urgent data can be transmitted reliably with low latency. The performance of the proposed routing protocol is analyzed by computer simulation.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제68권1호
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• pp.98-101
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose the power-based pipelined-forwarding MAC protocol which can select relay nodes according to the residual power and energy harvesting rate in EH-WSN (energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks). The proposed MAC follows a pipelined-forwarding scheme in which nodes repeatedly sleep and wake up in an EH-WSN environment and data is continuously transmitted from a high-level node to a low-level node. The sleep interval is adaptively controlled so that nodes with low energy harvesting rate can be charged sufficiently, thereby minimizing the transmission delay and increasing the network lifetime. Simulation shows that the proposed MAC protocol improves the balance of residual power and network lifetime.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.432-445
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• 2024

This paper demonstrates improved throughput and energy efficiency of wireless communications by exploiting nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA), multiple input-multiple output (MIMO), and radio frequency energy harvesting (EH) technologies. To assess the performance of NOMA MIMO communications with EH (MMe), we consider the nonlinear characteristics of EH devices and propose explicit expressions for throughput and outage probability. Based on our results, the system performance is significantly mitigated by EH nonlinearity and is considerably improved by increasing the number of antennas. Additionally, by appropriately adjusting the system parameters, our NOMA MMe innovation can avert complete outages while optimizing system performance. Moreover, the results demonstrate the superiority of the NOMA MMe over its orthogonal multiple access MMe counterparts.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2021

Energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks(EH-WSNs) can collect energy from the environment and overcome the technical limitations of existing power. Since the transmission distance in a wireless sensor network is limited, the data are delivered to the destination node through multi-hop routing. In EH-WSNs, the routing protocol should consider the power situations of nodes, which is determined by the remaining power and energy-harvesting rate. In addition, in applications such as environmental monitoring, when there are urgent data, the routing protocol should be able to transmit it stably and quickly. This paper proposes an adaptive routing protocol that satisfies different requirements of normal and urgent data. To extend network lifetime, the proposed routing protocol reduces power imbalance for normal data and also minimizes transmission latency by controlling the transmission power for urgent data. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive routing can improve network lifetime by mitigating the power imbalance and greatly reduce the transmission delay of urgent data.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.902-912
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• 2016

Recent advances in energy harvesting (EH) technology have motivated the adoption of rechargeable mobile devices for communications. In this paper, we consider a point-to-point (P2P) wireless communication system in which an EH transmitter with a non-ideal rechargeable battery is required to send a given fixed number of bits to the receiver before they expire according to a preset delay constraint. Due to the possible energy loss in the storage process, the harvest-use-and-store (HUS) architecture is adopted. We characterize the properties of the optimal solutions, for additive white Gaussian channels (AWGNs) and then block-fading channels, that maximize the energy efficiency (i.e., battery residual) subject to a given rate requirement. Interestingly, it is shown that the optimal solution has a water-filling interpretation with double thresholds and that both thresholds are monotonic. Based on this, we investigate the optimal double-threshold based allocation policy and devise an algorithm to achieve the solution. Numerical results are provided to validate the theoretical analysis and to compare the optimal solutions with existing schemes.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.153-162
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• 2018

웨어러블 디바이스의 서비스 제공을 위한 지속 가능한 전원에 대한 요구가 높아짐에 따라 에너지 하베스팅의 중요성이 증대되고 있다. 본 연구는 마찰소자를 고려한 다중 에너지 하베스팅 플랫폼인 EH-P를 개발하였다. 높은 전압과 낮은 전류를 가진 하베스팅 소자에 전압을 낮추면서 전류를 높일 수 있는 스위치 회로 제시하였다. PV와 TENG의 상호보완적 구성을 통해 실내 환경에서 짧은 시간동안 MCU가 동작할 수 있는 전압과 전류를 제공할 수 있었다. 결과적으로 제안된 플랫폼을 통해 웨어러블 플랫폼을 동작시키고, 제작된 웨어러블 디바이스에서 전체 소모 전력 요구량의 29%를 제공함으로써 웨어러블 디바이스 사용시간(device life time)을 증가시킬 수 있었다. 이 논문에 제시된 결과는 멀티플 하베스터 플랫폼에서 웨어러블 하베스팅 애플리케이션의 활용을 위한 발전 소자의 가능성을 보여주었다.