An environmental energy harvesting framework for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 2003 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Utilizing Solar Power in Wireless Sensor Networks
LCN '03 Proceedings of the 28th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks
ScatterWeb - Low Power Sensor Nodes and Energy Aware Routing
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 09
Access Point Power Saving in Solar/Battery Powered IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh Networks
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks
Solar-aware clustering in wireless sensor networks
ISCC '04 Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 2 (ISCC"04) - Volume 02
Fair flow control in solar powered WLAN mesh networks
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Managing traffic growth in solar powered wireless mesh networks
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Energy efficient monitoring for intrusion detection in battery-powered wireless mesh networks
ADHOC-NOW'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ad-hoc, mobile, and wireless networks
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In this paper, resource allocation and outage control are considered for solar-powered WLAN mesh networks. Solar-powered nodes are a very cost effective option in WLAN mesh deployments where continuous power sources are not practical. In such nodes, the cost of the solar panel and battery can be a significant fraction of the total and, therefore, reducing AP power consumption is very important. A solar panel/battery configuration methodology is introduced based on a proposed AP power-aware version of IEEE 802.11. Public meteorological data is used to provision each node based on an averaged offered capacity profile. Since a node is configured statistically, it is possible that future loading may result in nonzero outage even when negligible outage is the design target. Control algorithms are introduced which can improve node outage performance by sometimes introducing an access point capacity deficit. Results are presented which show the value of the proposed configuration methodology and show that the control algorithms can prevent outage even at high levels of excess loading.