Periodic charging planning for a mobile WCE in wireless rechargeable sensor networks based on hybrid PSO and GA algorithm

Previous studies of periodic charging planning in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs) assumed that the traveling energy of a mobile Wireless Charging Equipment (WCE) has sufficient energy for charging travel and the energy depletion rate at each sensor is identical. These assumptions, however, are not realistic. In fact, the traveling energy of the WCE is limited by the energy capacity of the WCE and the energy consumptions at different sensor nodes are imbalanced. In this paper, a periodic charging planning for a mobile WCE with limited traveling energy is proposed. With the optimization objective of maximizing the the docking time ratio, this periodic charging planning ensures that the energy of the nodes in the WRSN varies periodically and that nodes perpetually fail to die. To deal with the problem, a Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Genetic Algorithm (HPSOGA) is proposed due to the NP-Hard of the problem. Extensive simulations have been conducted, the experimental results indicate that the proposed periodic charging planning can avoid node deaths and keep the energy of sensor nodes varying periodically. Compared with the Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), the algorithm HPSOGA outperforms both of these two algorithms empirically. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.