Energy Aware Basestation Placement in Solar Powered Sensor Networks

Sensor nodes are often used in outdoor locations where they can be operated using solar power. When such a network is deployed, there are usually restrictions in the way that the nodes can be positioned, and this results in a node-dependent attenuation of the usable solar energy. This effect must be taken into account when placing the basestations used to communicate with the sensor nodes. In this paper we consider the minimum-cost placement of …