Collaborative data gathering and recharging using multiple mobile vehicles in wireless rechargeable sensor network

Abstract

SummaryMany cutting‐edge studies on collaborative data gathering and charging (CDAC) assume that the mobile vehicle (MV) has enough energy to charge the sensors as well as collect data from them. The current studies also took into account that the sensors always receive full charge from the MV, resulting in a wireless rechargeable sensor network (WRSN) with very little dead period and very little data gathering latency. It is also believed that the energy consumption rates of the sensors are constant. However, in large‐scale WRSN, the aforementioned considerations are not always practical. In addition, the utilization of single base station (BS) in a large‐scale WRSN cannot guarantee improved network scalability, expedite charging decisions by minimizing the substantial overhead of the BS, and enhance the traveling distance for MV. In order to overcome the aforementioned problems, we present an effective on‐demand partial CDAC scheme using battery‐limited multiple MVs. The proposed scheme implements the CDAC process in such a way that the total dead periods of the sensors and the energy consumption of MVs are reduced. We use a multi‐objective‐based genetic algorithm (GA) to optimize the entire CDAC process. The simulation is carried out to demonstrate the usefulness and competitiveness of the proposed scheme. In comparison with existing works, the proposed work improves CDAC performance by reducing sensor dead time and energy consumption of MV.