A Hybrid Control Law for Energy-Oriented Tasks Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
Carolina Albea Sanchez, Olesia Mokrenko, Luca Zaccarian, Suzanne Lesecq · IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology · 2017
Energy is a key resource in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), especially when sensor nodes are powered by batteries. This paper investigates how to save energy of the whole WSN, thanks to control strategies, in real time and in a dynamic way. The energy management strategy is based on a hybrid dynamical system approach. This choice is motivated by the hybrid inherent nature of the WSN system when energy management is considered. The hybrid nature basically comes from the combination of continuous physical processes, namely, the charge/discharge of the node batteries, while the discrete part is related to the change in the functioning modes and an unreachable condition of the nodes. This approach provides a decentralized controller with low computational load that reduces the number of switching as compared with existing approaches. The proposed strategy is evaluated and compared in simulation on a realistic test case. Last, they have been implemented on a real test bench, and the obtained results have been discussed.