UAV-assisted Efficient Far-field Wireless Charging for WSN

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Abstract

A wireless sensor network's (WSN's) uptime is highly depended on the lifespans of its wireless sensor nodes (SNs). However, the battery of an SN sometimes may not be easy to be replaced owing to circumstantial constraints. Nowadays, the far-field wireless power transmission (WPT) has attracted more attention from industry and academy. Many researchers have proposed to utilize the WPT technology to remotely charge the SNs. As unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can fly close to the SNs located in some hard-to-reach areas, in this work, a UAV is adopted to assist the green base station (GBS) to efficiently power the SNs which are far away from the GBS. Considering the limited energy carried by the UAV and the UAV's energy consumption, we propose a novel UAV comprehensive charging strategy to efficiently power the WSN and to enable all the SNs to be charged with considerable energy replenishment. The simulation results validate our proposed strategy can effectively extend the WSN's uptime.

Identifier

85146916719 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Proceedings IEEE Global Communications Conference Globecom

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10001113

e-ISSN

25766813

ISSN

23340983

First Page

1734

Last Page

1739

Grant

62002312

Fund Ref

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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