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Abstract
We investigate wireless sensor networks with energy harvesting and periodic data collection by mobile sinks. We propose a Markov model to study the trade-off between the value of information at the mobile sink and the cost of data collection. In particular, we focus on the impact of the limited ability of sensor nodes to collect energy by incorporating an energy buffer with discretised energy chunks as an abstraction of the battery and energy harvesting dynamics. We also use a value information framework that accounts for the timeliness of the data by discounting the value of the information at the sensor over time.
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Computer and Communications networks are key infrastructures of the information society with high socio-economic value as they contribute to the correct operations of many critical services (from healthcare to finance and transportation). Internet is the core of today''s computer-communication infrastructures. This has transformed the Internet, from a robust network for data transfer between computers, to a global, content-rich, communication and information system where contents are increasingly generated by the users, and distributed according to human social relations. Next-generation network technologies, architectures and protocols are therefore required to overcome the limitations of the legacy Internet and add new capabilities and services. The future Internet should be ubiquitous, secure, resilient, and closer to human communication paradigms.
Computer Communications is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes high-quality scientific articles (both theory and practice) and survey papers covering all aspects of future computer communication networks (on all layers, except the physical layer), with a special attention to the evolution of the Internet architecture, protocols, services, and applications.