Title:
Task scheduling in supercapacitor based environmentally powered wireless sensor nodes

dc.contributor.advisor Zhang, Ying
dc.contributor.author Yang, Hengzhao
dc.contributor.committeeMember AlRegib, Ghassan
dc.contributor.committeeMember Weitnauer, Mary Ann
dc.contributor.committeeMember Rincon-Mora, Gabriel Alfonso
dc.contributor.committeeMember Wang, Yang
dc.contributor.department Electrical and Computer Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2013-09-17T16:33:02Z
dc.date.available 2013-09-17T16:33:02Z
dc.date.created 2013-08
dc.date.issued 2013-05-10
dc.date.submitted August 2013
dc.date.updated 2013-09-17T16:33:02Z
dc.description.abstract The objective of this dissertation is to develop task scheduling guidelines and algorithms for wireless sensor nodes that harvest energy from ambient environment and use supercapacitor based storage systems to buffer the harvested energy. This dissertation makes five contributions. First, a physics based equivalent circuit model for supercapacitors is developed. The variable leakage resistance (VLR) model takes into account three mechanisms of supercapacitors: voltage dependency of capacitance, charge redistribution, and self-discharge. Second, the effects of time and supercapacitor initial state on supercapacitor voltage change and energy loss during charge redistribution are investigated. Third, the task scheduling problem in supercapacitor based environmentally powered wireless sensor nodes is studied qualitatively. The impacts of supercapacitor state and energy harvesting on task scheduling are examined. Task scheduling rules are developed. Fourth, the task scheduling problem in supercapacitor based environmentally powered wireless sensor nodes is studied quantitatively. The modified earliest deadline first (MEDF) algorithm is developed to schedule nonpreemptable tasks without precedence constraints. Finally, the modified first in first out (MFIFO) algorithm is proposed to schedule nonpreemptable tasks with precedence constraints. The MEDF and MFIFO algorithms take into account energy constraints of tasks in addition to timing constraints. The MEDF and MFIFO algorithms improve the energy performance and maintain the timing performance of the earliest deadline first (EDF) and first in first out (FIFO) algorithms, respectively.
dc.description.degree Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/48962
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Task scheduling
dc.subject Supercapacitor
dc.subject Energy harvesting
dc.subject Wireless sensor nodes
dc.subject Power management
dc.subject.lcsh Sensor networks
dc.subject.lcsh Detectors
dc.subject.lcsh Timing circuits
dc.title Task scheduling in supercapacitor based environmentally powered wireless sensor nodes
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor Zhang, Ying
local.contributor.corporatename School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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thesis.degree.level Doctoral
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