Facility Location Problems vs Energy Consumption

The solution of the median is the ideal location for the sink node(s) in a wireless sensor network for overall energy consumption minimization. Furthermore, when recharging the nodes of a wireless sensor network it iss shown that this is also a facility location problem. It is also proved that both problems have the same solution.

Energy ratio E(s)/E(s_E) over distance ratio D(s) /D(s_D). Apparently, the median solution for minimizing the overall energy consumption is identical to the solution of recharger base that minimizes the distance covered for recharging purposes in the network.

Publications

2021
[7] Georgios Tsoumanis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Sonia Aïssa, Ioannis Stavrakakis, “Energy and Distance Optimization in Rechargeable Wireless Sensor Networks”, In IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 378-391, 2021.
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2020
[6] Georgios Tsoumanis, Nikolaos Giannakeas, Alexandros T. Tzallas, Evripidis Glavas, Eleftherios Stergiou, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Constantinos T. Angelis, “A Lifetime Extension Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks”, In 2020 43rd International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), pp. 260-264, 2020.
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2018
[5] Georgios Tsoumanis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Sonia Aïssa, Ioannis Stavrakakis, “Performance Evaluation of a Proposed On-Demand Recharging Policy in Wireless Sensor Networks”, In 2018 IEEE 19th International Symposium on “A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks” (WoWMoM) (IEEE WoWMoM 2018), Chania, Crete, Greece, pp. 14-19, 2018.
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[4] Georgios Tsoumanis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Sonia Aïssa, Ioannis Stavrakakis, “A Recharging Distance Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks”, In Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 75-76, pp. 80 – 86, 2018.
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[3] Georgios Tsoumanis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Georgios Koufoudakis, Sonia Aïssa, “Energy-Efficient Sink Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks”, In Computer Networks, vol. 141, pp. 166 – 178, 2018.
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2017
[2] Georgios Tsoumanis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Sonia Aïssa, Ioannis Stavrakakis, “Recharging Vehicle Distance Minimization in Wireless Sensor Networks”, In BalkanCom 2017, First International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking, Tirana, Albania, 2017. ([pdf])
2012
[1] Konstantinos Oikonomou, Sonia Aïssa, “Dynamic Sink Assignment for Efficient Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks”, In 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1876-1881, 2012.
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