Energy Management for Renewable Powered Sensor Networks

I have worked on this broad topic since 2003, but my recent work is more focused on IoT networks. My key research papers on this topic are listed below, divided into three sub-topics:

        Sleep Scheduling in Renewable Powered Sensor Networkss

  1. K. Kar, A. Krishnamurthy and N. Jaggi, Dynamic Node Activation in Networks of Rechargeable Sensors, IEEE/ACM Transactions in Networking, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 15-26, February 2006.
  2. N. Jaggi, K. Kar and A. Krishnamurthy, Near-optimal Activation Policies in Rechargeable Sensor Networks under Spatial Correlations, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 4, No. 3, May 2008.
  3. N. Jaggi, K. Kar and A. Krishnamurthy, Rechargeable Sensor Activation under Temporal Correlations, Wireless Networks, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 619-635, July 2009.

        Energy Efficient Routing in Multihop Wireless Networks

  1. K. Kar, M. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman and L. Tassiulas, Routing for Network Capacity Maximization in Energy-constrained Ad-hoc Networks, Proceedings of Infocom 2003, San Francisco, CA, April 2003.
  2. S. Sarkar, MHR. Khouzani and K. Kar, Optimal Routing and Scheduling in Multihop Wireless Renewable Energy Networks, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 58, Issue 7, Pages 1792-1798, July 2013.

        Energy Optimization in Renewable Powered IoT Networks

  1. E. Liri, N. Orie, H. Siezar, K. K. Ramakrishnan, P. K. Singh, W. Cai, L. Gerday, K. Kar, G. Lyon, P. Sharma, Communication Energy and Protocol Considerations in IoT Deployments, Proceedings of 2020 IEEE 6th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), August 2020.
  2. E. Liri, K. K. Ramakrishnan, K. Kar, An Efficient Energy Management Solution for Renewable Energy Based IoT Devices, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference On Distributed Computing And Networking (ICDCN), Kharagpur, India, January 2023.
  3. E. Liri, K. K. Ramakrishnan, K. Kar, Energy-Efficient Distributed Task Scheduling for Multi-Sensor IoT Networks, IEEE Network, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 318-324, March/April 2023. (Shorter version appeared in ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems for a Sustainable Society (NET4us 2022).)