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Opportunistic routing and data dissemination protocol for energy harvesting wireless sensor networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Recent advances in environmental sources harvesting technologies is a promising solution to provide sustainable energy sources for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Renewable energy sources such as solar, thermal and ...
Trading wireless information and power transfer: Relay selection to minimize the outage probability
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IEEE
, 2014 , Conference Paper)
This paper studies the outage probability minimization problem for a multiple relay network with energy harvesting constraints. The relays are hybrid nodes used for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer from ...
A Secret-key-aided scheme to secure transmissions from single-antenna RF-eh source nodes
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
We propose a two-phase artificial-noise-aided scheme to power a single-antenna energy-harvesting source node (Alice) and secure her transmissions to a multiple-antenna legitimate destination (Bob) in the presence of a ...
Joint data and power transfer optimization for energy harvesting wireless networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Energy harvesting techniques emerge as a potential solution for prolonging the lifetime of the energy-constrained mobile wireless devices. In this paper, we focus on radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting for multiuser ...
Throughput of a cooperative energy harvesting secondary user in cognitive radio networks
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Wiley Blackwell
, 2016 , Article)
This paper investigates the maximum throughput of a rechargeable secondary user (SU) sharing the spectrum with a primary user (PU). The SU is assumed to be an energy harvesting node, which harvests energy packets from the ...
Towards Developing a Hybrid Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvester for Remote Sensing Applications: A Design and Optimization Study
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Qatar University Press
, 2021 , Poster)
A novel design of a hybrid piezoelectric-electromagnetic harvester for vortex-induced vibration applications inside a pipe-flow is proposed. The piezoelectric energy harvester is modeled with a macro-fiber composite with ...
Figure of merit comparison of PP-based electret and PVDF-based piezoelectric polymer energy harvesters
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SPIE
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
The harvesting of mechanical strain and kinetic energy has received great attention over the past two decades in order to power wireless electronic components such as those used in passive and active monitoring applications. ...
Gas Sensing and Power Harvesting Polyvinylidene Fluoride Nanocomposites Containing Hybrid Nanotubes
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
Gas sensing properties at room temperature and energy harvesting performances are realized for the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) nanocomposites containing titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanotubes grown in the presence of carbon ...
A wind turbine architecture employing a new three port magnetic gear box
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
Mechanical gearboxes are typically employed with doubly-fed induction generator based wind turbines to convert the turbine's low speed mechanical power into high-speed mechanical power to drive the electrical generator. ...
High-performance adaptive Perturb and observe MPPT technique for photovoltaic-based microgrids
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IEEE
, 2011 , Article)
Solar photovoltaic (PV) energy has witnessed double-digit growth in the past decade. The penetration of PV systems as distributed generators in low-voltage grids has also seen significant attention. In addition, the need ...