Joint Data Upload and Targets Coverage in Solar-Powered IIoT Networks

In this paper, we study an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) network with a sink/gateway that is capable of decoding multiple transmissions via Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC), and energy harvesting devices tasked with providing complete targets coverage of targets. In particular, we study a novel question: how to schedule the sensing and transmission of these devices to ensure complete target coverage over time? We outline a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) and two heuristic solutions that jointly optimize the active time and transmit power of devices. Our simulation results show that the complete targets coverage lifetime of our heuristic solutions is within 80\% of the optimal complete targets coverage lifetime, as computed by MILP.