Maximizing The Lifetime of WSN Using Hybrid Energy Harvesting Approach

Abstract

The 21st century is marked by a remarkable expansion of IoT. This technology that allows us to connect with our objects permanently and thus monitor each interaction that may be crucial in our daily life. And among the most important bronchi of this technology we are interested in wireless sensor networks with mobile sink (WSN-MS1 for short). These networks, while being very useful and efficient in the world of internet of things (IoT)[33],[34], they face serious challenges, particularly that of the battery which ensures them a very limited lifetime, as well as the problem of the broken links between the transmitting nodes and the mobile sink. In this paper, we have proposed a new approach EH-HXMAC that solves the first problem by collecting ambient energy from the two most powerful sources (the sun and the wind), and by acting on the duty cycle of the emitting nodes. To remedy the second problem, we have resorted to the Handover technique which ensures data transmission integrity between the sensor and the mobile sink. The results of the simulation carried out by the Cooja Contiki simulator show that the combination of these three techniques provides an improvement in terms of network lifetime , throughput and received packets number.