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Wireless Power Transfer Algorithms, Technologies and Applications in Ad Hoc Communication Networks

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Wireless power transfer attracts significant attention from both academia and industry. While most previous studies have primarily focused on optimizing charging sequences and/or durations for one or more mobile chargers, we concentrate on collaboration between mobile chargers. In this context, what we mean by “collaboration” is that chargers can exchange energy. We will first show the collaboration benefit in terms of charging coverage and energy usage effectiveness, then we will show how to design collaboration-based scheduling algorithms using a simple yet representative setting. Finally, we will demonstrate several extensions in which previous assumptions are relaxed one by one. We also use simulations to evaluate our theoretical findings and investigate the effects of important design parameters.

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Jie Wu is supported in part by NSF grants CNS 1461932, CNS 1460971, CNS 1449860, IIP 1439672, and CNS 1156574. Sheng Zhang is supported in part by NSFC grants (61502224, 61472181, 61472185, and 91218302), China Postdoctoral Science Fund (2015M570434), and Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and Industrialization.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Sheng Zhang

  2. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, 1925 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA

    Jie Wu

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus” (CTI), Patras, Greece

    Sotiris Nikoletseas

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA

    Yuanyuan Yang

  3. School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Apostolos Georgiadis

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Zhang, S., Wu, J. (2016). Collaborative Mobile Charging. In: Nikoletseas, S., Yang, Y., Georgiadis, A. (eds) Wireless Power Transfer Algorithms, Technologies and Applications in Ad Hoc Communication Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46810-5_19

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