Green Wireless Sensor Network
A special issue of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (ISSN 2224-2708). This special issue belongs to the section "Wireless Control Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 3094
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wireless sensor networks; machine learning; internet of things; embedded devices
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Green wireless sensor networks (GWSNs) represent an emerging concept in which the lifetime and throughput performance is maximized while minimizing the carbon footprints. GWSNs are among the most natural applications of energy-harvesting techniques. Sensor nodes are usually deployed in harsh environments with no infrastructured power supply, and are often scattered over wide areas where human intervention is difficult and expensive, if not impossible. Therefore, their lifetime is limited by the duration of their batteries, and so most of the research efforts in the field of WSNs has been devoted to lifetime maximization by means of the joint application of low-power design, dynamic power management, and energy-aware routing algorithms.
The capability of harvesting renewable power from the environment provides the opportunity of granting unbounded lifetime to sensor nodes, thus overcoming the limitations of battery-operated WSNs.
Designing a GWSN addresses several hardware-software architectural aspects, such as: energy harvesting from natural resources (sun, wind, etc.); smart operation modes through dynamic power management strategies; low-power triggering techniques, such as wake-up radios, to eliminate idle-listening-induced communication costs; new energy-efficient routing algorithms; and energy redistribution among nodes by means of wireless power transfer (WPT) technology.
This Special Issue targets scientific contributions on green wireless sensor networks (GWSNs) addressing energy efficiency and green computing principles.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Energy-harvesting-enabled networks;
- New power management strategies;
- Low-power triggering;
- Energy efficient routing algorithms;
- Energy redistribution among nodes;
- Use cases and testbeds;
Dr. Emanuele Lattanzi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wireless sensor networks
- sensors and actuators
- energy harvesting
- energy sustainability
- low-power triggering
- energy-efficient routing algorithms
- wireless power transfer
