Design and Implementation of Energy Sharing System for MANETs

Abstract

The ability of energy harvesting has enhanced sustainability of mobile networks. However, the energy harvesting capability and possibility of nodes are quite different. Namely, energy consumption and harvesting is still not balanced. In this paper, we follow the concept of energy sharing, and bring forward three necessary protocols. Distinguished from other works, we propose two kinds of power cord connection structures. We consider the leakage nature of ultra-capacitors and propose sender initialized method. We also describe energy routing protocol under the condition of NON DC/DC module. We evaluate our methods using a test platform.