[Tccc] IEEE PIMRC 2013 - SPECIAL SESSION on Energy Harve...
Teo Wan Ting
wanting_teoatsutd.edu.sg
Wed May 8 23:54:25 EDT 2013
IEEE PIMRC 2013 - SPECIAL SESSION on Energy Harvesting Communications
Paper submission deadline: 11 May 2013
EDAS Submission link: http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=14835&track=32947
Over the last decade, interest in energy harvesting has increased because of
its environmental friendliness and its ability to power devices without power
supply and electric wires; 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, or next generation machine-to-machine
communications.
This special session will focus on issues related to energy harvesting
communications. In particular for wireless sensor networks, because of its
ultra-low-power operation, such small, wireless, autonomous sensors can be
powered by harvesting ambient power which is scavenged in milliwatts or even
microwatts. If these wireless sensors, which spread throughout a home or
factories, in-buildings or even outdoor to monitor all kind of environmental
conditions, are powered by energy harvesting, there are no batteries to replace
and no labour costs associated with replacing them, in other words,
self-sustainable. However, the design of communication systems has to take into
account the fluctuating availability of energy source.
In a cellular network, energy harvesting can be used to provide power in many
elements of a telecom network, saving considerable costs in electricity supply
and providing low maintenance monitoring. Powering mobile phone base stations
with wind or solar power allows telecom networks to expand beyond the limits of
the power grid. The possibility of re-distribution of the renewable energy in
smart grids allows further efficient utilization, but leads to many challenges
as well.
Another important focus of this workshop is on RF energy harvesting. RF energy
is currently broadcasted from billions of radio transmitters around the world,
including mobile telephones, handheld radios, mobile base stations, 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.
Fundamental practical issues on realizing this ability leads to many
interesting research problems.
The special session solicits original technical papers that were not previously
published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. The
papers should address the challenges of energy harvesting communications.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: -
- Energy-harvesting base-station / relay / access point;
- Energy-harvesting and energy-efficient machine-to-machine (M2)
communications;
- Low-power and energy-harvesting wireless sensor network;
- Light (solar), thermal, vibration, RF, motion, wind energy
harvesting;
- Wireless charging;
- Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling;
- Energy harvesting applications.
Organisers:
Chau Yuen, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Woon Hau Chin, Toshiba Research Europe, UK
Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical University, China
Chin Keong Ho, Institute for Infocomm Research. Singapore
Maged Elkashlan, Queen Mary University of London, UK
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