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We consider the problem of data collection from a continental-scale network of energy harvesting sensors, applied to tracking mobile assets in rural environments. Our application constraints favour a highly asymmetric solution, with heavily…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Kai Li , Chau Yuen , Branislav Kusy , Raja Jurdak , Aleksandar Ignjatovic , Salil S. Kanhere , Sanjay Jha

Distributed estimation based on measurements from multiple wireless sensors is investigated. It is assumed that a group of sensors observe the same quantity in independent additive observation noises with possibly different variances. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Shuguang Cui , Jinjun Xiao , Andrea Goldsmith , Zhi-Quan Luo , H. Vincent Poor

We optimize resource allocation to enable communication security in simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for internet-of-things (IoT) networks. The resource allocation algorithm design is formulated as a non-convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Elena Boshkovska , Nikola Zlatanov , Linglong Dai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Energy efficiency has emerged as a defining constraint in the evolution of sustainable Internet of Things (IoT) networks. This work moves beyond simulation-based or device-centric studies to deliver measurement-driven, network-level smart…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mohammud J. Bocus , Senhui Qiu , Robert J. Piechocki , Kerstin Eder

This paper advocates the use of the distributed compressed sensing (DCS) paradigm to deploy energy harvesting (EH) Internet of Thing (IoT) devices for energy self-sustainability. We consider networks with signal/energy models that capture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Wei Chen , Nikos Deligiannis , Yiannis Andreopoulos , Ian J. Wassell

We consider a wireless sensor network, consisting of N heterogeneous sensors and a fusion center (FC), tasked with detecting a known signal in uncorrelated Gaussian noises. Each sensor can harvest randomly arriving energy and store it in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Ghazaleh Ardeshiri , Azadeh Vosoughi

Energy efficiency is a key requirement for the Internet of Things, as many sensors are expected to be completely stand-alone and able to run for years without battery replacement. Data compression aims at saving some energy by reducing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Chiara Pielli , Alessandro Biason , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

In the ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, smart power management algorithms combined with energy harvesting solutions are crucial to obtain self-sustainability. This paper presents an energy-aware adaptive sampling rate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Marco Giordano , Silvano Cortesi , Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis , Michele Crabolu , Giovanni Bellusci , Michele Magno

The Internet of Things paradigm envisages the presence of many battery-powered sensors and this entails the design of energy-aware protocols. Source coding techniques allow to save some energy by compressing the packets sent over the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Alessandro Biason , Chiara Pielli , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

Energy harvesting from the surroundings is a promising solution to perpetually power-up wireless sensor communications. This paper presents a data-driven approach of finding optimal transmission policies for a solar-powered sensor node that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-29 Meng-Lin Ku , Yan Chen , K. J. Ray Liu

This paper analyzes the communication between two energy harvesting wireless sensor nodes. The nodes use automatic repeat request and forward error correction mechanism for the error control. The random nature of available energy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Animesh Yadav , Mathew Goonewardena , Wessam Ajib , Octavia A. Dobre , Halima Elbiaze

Joint optimization of scheduling and estimation policies is considered for a system with two sensors and two non-collocated estimators. Each sensor produces an independent and identically distributed sequence of random variables, and each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Mukul Gagrani , Ashutosh Nayyar , Urbashi Mitra

This paper studies the problem of allocating bandwidth and computation resources to data analytics tasks in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. IoT nodes are powered by batteries, can process (some of) the data locally, and the quality grade…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Victor Valls , George Iosifidis , Theodoros Salonidis

A distributed adaptive algorithm to estimate a time-varying signal, measured by a wireless sensor network, is designed and analyzed. One of the major features of the algorithm is that no central coordination among the nodes needs to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-10-22 Carlo Fischione , Alberto Speranzon , Karl H. Johansson , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

The emergence of the Internet-of-Things and cyber-physical systems necessitates the coordination of access to limited communication resources in an autonomous and distributed fashion. Herein, the optimal design of a wireless sensing system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Wei Cui , Urbashi Mitra

This work examines the large-scale deployment of energy harvesting sensors for the purpose of sensing and reconstruction of a spatially correlated Gaussian random field. The sensors are powered solely by energy harvested from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Teng-Cheng Hsu , Y. -W. Peter Hong , Tsang-Yi Wang

In this paper, the problem of minimizing the weighted sum of age of information (AoI) and total energy consumption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is studied. In the considered model, each IoT device monitors a physical process that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Changchuan Yin , Walid Saad , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

Internet of Things (IoT) systems continuously collect heterogeneous sensing signals from ubiquitous sensors to support intelligent applications such as human activity analysis, emotion monitoring, and environmental perception. These signals…

Energy harvesting has been developed as an effective technology for communication systems in order to extend the lifetime of these systems. In this work, we consider a singleuser energy harvesting wireless communication system, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Milad Rezaee , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Mohammad Reza Aref

Remote estimation with an energy harvesting sensor with a limited data and energy buffer is considered. The sensor node observes an unknown Gaussian field and communicates its observations to a remote fusion center using the energy it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Ayca Ozcelikkale , Tomas McKelvey , Mats Viberg