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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Adu-Manu, Kofi Sarpong
• Abdulai, Jamal-Deen
• Katsriku, Ferdinand Apietu
• Engmann, Felicia
• Banaseka, Frank Kataka
• Chu, Zheng
• Zheng Chu

Titel

Prolonging the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review of Current Techniques

Ist Teil von

• Wireless communications and mobile computing, 2018-01, Vol.2018 (2018), p.1-23

Ort / Verlag

Cairo, Egypt: Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• There has been an increase in research interest in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) as a result of the potential for their widespread use in many different areas like home automation, security, environmental monitoring, and many more. Despite the successes gained, the widespread adoption of WSNs particularly in remote and inaccessible places where their use is most beneficial is hampered by the major challenge of limited energy, being in most instances battery powered. To prolong the lifetime for these energy hungry sensor nodes, energy management schemes have been proposed in the literature to keep the sensor nodes alive making the network more operational and efficient. Currently, emphasis has been placed on energy harvesting, energy transfer, and energy conservation methods as the primary means of maintaining the network lifetime. These energy management techniques are designed to balance the energy in the overall network. The current review presents the state of the art in the energy management schemes, the remaining challenges, and the open issues for future research work.