IEEE PIMRC 2013 - SPECIAL SESSION on Energy Harvesting Communications Paper submission deadline: 7 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 labor 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 This email may contain confidential and/or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law and is intended for receipt and use solely by the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. Please delete the email immediately and inform the sender. Thank You _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
