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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-85803-7
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Electrical Engineering
Body granting the degree
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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2018
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Wireless sensor networks can potentially achieve perpetual maintenance-free operation by harnessing ambient energy from the environment. However, most environmental energy sources, such as vibrations, heat, radio frequency (RF) are usually inadequate and sporadic in nature. Therefore, sensor nodes that rely solely on such environmental resources, suffer from frequent and random energy outages. This energy outage leads to intermittent connectivity and induces a large delay in multi-hop transmission paradigms.
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Electrical engineering
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Subject Term
Applied sciences;Cooperative relaying;Intermittent connectivity;MAC protocols;Opportunistic routing;RF energy harvesting;Wireless sensor networks