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Placing Wireless Chargers With Multiple Antennas


Abstract:

Charger placement is an important problem in improving the quality of service in wireless rechargeable sensor networks. This paper studies the problem of Wireless ChArger...Show More

Abstract:

Charger placement is an important problem in improving the quality of service in wireless rechargeable sensor networks. This paper studies the problem of Wireless ChArger PlacemeNt with Multiple (Directional) Antennas (WANDA). The problem is described as follows: given a set of wireless chargers equipped with multiple directional antennas and a set of wireless rechargeable sensors, determine the chargers’ positions and orientations to maximize the overall charging utility. According to the relative positional relationship between the antennas, the problem is classified into Relative Orientation Fixed (WANDA-ROF) and Relative Orientation Unfixed (WANDA-ROU) situations. To address WANDA, we present a piecewise constant function to approximate the nonlinearity of charging power and propose an area discretization technique to reduce the infinite solution space to a limited one without performance loss. Then, we prove the monotonic submodularity of WANDA, and present a \frac{1}{2}-\epsilon approximation algorithm for the ROF situation and a \frac{1}{6}-\epsilon approximation algorithm for the ROU situation, all run in polynomial time. Finally, we conduct extensive simulation and experiments to show that our algorithms outperform comparison algorithms by at least 16% for ROF situation and 12% for ROU situation.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing ( Volume: 23, Issue: 6, June 2024)
Page(s): 7517 - 7536
Date of Publication: 04 December 2023

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