On Lifetime Enhancement of Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks with Energy-Harvesting Sensors

Abstract

This work investigates the problem of extending the lifetime of dynamic WSNs with energy-harvesting (EH) sensors to enhancing the total WSN lifetime. This problem is modeled as finding the maximal number of covers each of which can cover all targets to be monitored. Since the concerned problem is also NP-complete, this work proposes a novel harmony search algorithm. By simulation, the proposed algorithm is shown to be promising.