Optimal energy management policies for energy harvesting sensor nodes

  • Authors:
  • Vinod Sharma;Utpal Mukherji;Vinay Joseph;Shrey Gupta

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, India;Dept. of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, India;Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin;Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We study a sensor node with an energy harvesting source. The generated energy can be stored in a buffer. The sensor node periodically senses a random field and generates a packet. These packets are stored in a queue and transmitted using the energy available at that time. We obtain energy management policies that are throughput optimal, i.e., the data queue stays stable for the largest possible data rate. Next we obtain energy management policies which minimize the mean delay in the queue. We also compare performance of several easily implementable sub-optimal energy management policies. A greedy policy is identified which, in low SNR regime, is throughput optimal and also minimizes mean delay.