Energy Conservation for Wireless Mesh Networks: A PSO Approach with Throughput-Energy Consumption Scheme Using Solar Energy

Part 4: Neural Computing and Swarm IntelligenceInternational audienceA basic problem in the design of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) is presented by the choice of renewable energy for the communication problems in remote regions and post-disaster reconstruction areas. Since the cost and performance are take into consideration as the needs to address the inadequate capacities of links and time-varying traffic demands. In this paper, we aim to find a trade-off between the higher time-varying traffic throughput and lower energy consumption. We propose an optimal approach using particle swarm optimization (PSO) method by formulating this problem into a numerical optimization problem which takes the battery’s charge-discharge constraint into consideration firstly. As a further study, an accelerated approximation that computes this optimal problem for larger cases is put forward. Finally, the efficiency of our proposition is proved by numerical results