Name of SIG: SIG on Energy Harvesting Communication Networks (formerly known as SIG on Energy Harvesting Communications)
Chair: Xiangyun Zhou, The Australian National University,
Australia, Email: xiangyun.zhou@anu.edu.au
Vice-Chair: Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Email: dniyato@ntu.edu.sg
Vice-Chair: Kaibin Huang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Email: huangkb@eee.hku.hk
Vice-Chair: Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London, UK, Email: d.gunduz@imperial.ac.uk
Advisor: Aylin Yener, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Advisor and Former Chair: Chau Yuen, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
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Scope and Objectives:
Over the last decade, interest in energy
harvesting has increased because of its environmental friendliness, as well as
its ability to power devices without power supply from the electrical grid;
extend the life of batteries (or eliminate them entirely); reduce the
maintenance cost; and most importantly eliminate the need to replace batteries
in impossible-to-reach sensors such as within the body or walls. Energy
harvesting becomes a promising technology that enables smart cities, wide-area
rural communications, and next generation machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.
This SIG focuses on communication networks
powered by energy harvesting. The impact of energy harvesting on the design of
communication protocols and communication network architectures is of
particular interest. One of the key focuses is on wireless sensor networks
(WSN), because of its ultra-low-power operation. Such small, wireless,
autonomous sensors can be powered by harvesting energy from the ambient
environment on the order of milliwatts or even
microwatts. If these wireless sensors, which spread throughout a home, a
factory, or even outdoor to monitor all kind of environmental conditions, are
powered by energy harvesting, there are no batteries to replace and no labor costs associated with replacing them, in other words,
self-sustainable. However, the design of communications in the WSN has to take
into account the time-varying and often unpredictable nature of the amount of
energy arrival.
In a cellular network, energy harvesting can
be used to provide power in many elements of the network, saving considerable
costs in electricity supply and providing low maintenance monitoring. Powering macrocell, picocell or femtocell
base stations with wind or solar power allows the cellular network to expand
beyond the limits of the power grid, improve the energy efficiency and reduce
the costs. The possibility of re-distribution of the renewable energy in smart
grids allows further efficient utilization. But all such innovative and green
power solutions lead to many challenges in the design of the communication
system yet to be fully addressed.
Another important focus of this SIG is on RF
energy harvesting and wireless power transfer. RF energy is currently
broadcasted from billions of radio transmitters around the world, including
cellular base stations, WiFi access points, and
television/radio broadcast stations. The ability to harvest RF energy, from
ambient or dedicated sources, enables wireless charging of low-power devices
and has significant benefits to product design, usability, and reliability. The
use of dedicated RF power sources that can be jointly controlled by the
communication network is particularly an interest field of research because the
wireless power transfer and communication protocol can potentially be jointly
designed and optimized.
The research interests of the SIG go beyond
communication networks and cover other energy harvesting relevant mechanisms,
approaches, systems, and networks. The research expertise developed in the
communication theory and network theory can be applied to model and design
energy harvesting systems and networks. For example, many of the advanced
signal processing techniques that are developed for wireless data transmission
can be borrowed to design advanced and high-efficiency wireless power transfer
system.
This SIG also supports relevant industrial
standardization efforts.
The main sub-areas of interest include, but
not limited to:
·
Communication
and networking devices and equipment powered by energy harvesting;
·
Energy-harvesting
and energy-efficient machine-to-machine communications;
·
Low-power
and energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks;
·
RF
powered backscattered communications, e.g., RFID;
·
Green
and energy-efficient design of cellular networks powered by energy harvesting;
·
Energy-harvesting
principles, mechanisms, approaches, devices, and systems;
·
Wireless
power transfer and wirelessly powered communications;
·
Energy
cooperation, storage, and recycling;
·
Relevant
implementations and prototypes;
·
Relevant
standardizations and regulations.
Former Leadership (SIG on Energy
Harvesting Communications)
01/2013
– 10/2015
Chair: Chau Yuen, Singapore University of
Technology and Design, Singapore
Vice-Chair: Lei Shu, Guangdong University of
Petrochemical University
Vice-Chair: Chin Keong Ho, Institute for Infocomm
Research, Singapore
Vice-Chair: Woon Hau Chin, Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK
Advisor: Hsiao-Hwa
Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
SIG Members
1. Jiming Chen,
Zhejiang University, China
2. Woon Hau Chin, Toshiba Research Lab Europe Limited, UK
3. Trung Q. Duong,
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
4. Maged Elkashlan, University of London, UK
5. Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China
6. Chin Keong Ho, Institute for Infocomm
Research, Singapore
7. Qingyang (Rose)
Hu, Utah State University, USA
8. Jingon Joung, Institute for Infocomm
Research, Singapore
9. Dong Ku Kim, Yonsei
University, Korea
10. Hai Lin, Osaka Prefecture University,
Japan
11. Jaime Lloret
Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
12. Chih-Lin I,
China Mobile Research Institute, China
13. Rangarao Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
14. Chandra Murthy, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, India
15. Jianwei Niu, Beihang University, China
16. Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, University
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
17. Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira
Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
18. Yuexin Peng,
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
19. Yi Qian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
USA
20. Kei Sakaguchi,
Osaka University, Japan
21. Lei Shu, Guangdong University of
Petrochemical Technology, China
22. Lingyang Song,
Peking University, China
23. Sumei Sun, Institute
for Infocomm Research, Singapore.
24. Himal Suraweera, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
25. Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland, USA
26. Jinsong Wu,
Bell Laboratories, China
27. Chau Yuen, Singapore University of
Technology and Design, Singapore
28. Rui Zhang,
National University of Singapore, Singapore
29. Yan Zhang, Simula
Research Lab, Norway
30. Xiangyun
(Sean) Zhou, Australian National University, Australia
31. Zhaoyang
Zhang, Zhejiang University, China
32. Maryline Chetto, University of Nantes, France
33. Zhangbing
Zhou, China University of Geoscience (Beijing), China
34. Jun Zhang, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, Hong Kong
35. Martin Haardt,
TU Ilmenau, Germany
36. Winston Seah, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
37. Sheng Zhou, Tsinghua University,
China
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