Self-synchronized duty-cycling in sensor networks with energy harvesting capabilities: the static network case

Biological studies have shown that some species of ants rest quite large fractions of their time. Interestingly, not only single ants show this behaviour, but whole ant colonies exhibit synchronized activity phases resulting from self-organization. Inspired by this behaviour, we previously introduced an adaptive and self-synchronized duty-cycling mechanism for mobile sensor networks with energy harvesting capabilities. In this paper, we focus on the study of this mechanism in the context of static sensor networks, because most sensor networks deployed in practice are static. We consider various scenarios that result from the combination of different network topologies and sizes. Our results show that our mechanism also works in the case of static sensor networks with energy harvesting capabilities.