Program


The workshop will take place on Sunday the 21st of May 2017.
In room 242B.



Sunday, May 21, 09:00 - 10:30

WS02.1: Session #1

Chair: Marco Maso (Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei France Research Center, France)

Session starts with a 45 min keynote by Prof. Vincent Lau (HKUST)
Title: Mission-Critical Control with Energy Harvesting Sensors
 

09:45 Wireless-Powered Cooperative Multi-Relay Networks with Relay Selection
Qiang Li and Shangjie Feng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Ashish Pandharipande (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands); Qiang Ni (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Jing Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
10:00 Decode-and-Forward Two-Path Successive Relaying with Wireless Energy Harvesting
Chao Zhai and Lina Zheng (Shandong University, P.R. China); Peng Lan (Shandong Agricultural University, P.R. China); He Chen (University of Sydney, Australia); Hongji Xu (Shandong University, P.R. China)
10:15 Utility Maximization Models for Two-Hop Energy Relaying in Practical RF Harvesting Networks
Deepak Mishra and Swades De (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)



Sunday, May 21, 11:00 - 12:30

WS02.2: Session #2

Chair: Marco Maso (Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei France Research Center, France)

Session starts with a 45 min keynote by Prof. Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland)
Title: Energy Harvesting in IoT Networks: Recent Results and Future Directions
 

11:45 Energy Harvesting in Delay-Aware Cognitive Shared Access Networks
Zheng Chen and Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden); Marios Kountouris (Huawei Technologies, France)
12:00 Optimization of Base Stations Density for Hybrid Energy Based 3-D Wireless Networks
Aymen Omri and Mazen Omar Hasna (Qatar University, Qatar)
12:15 Simultaneous Information and Power Transfer under a Non-Linear RF Energy Harvesting Model
Xiaowei Xu, Ayca Ozcelikkale, Tomas McKelvey and Mats Viberg (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)



Sunday, May 21, 14:00 - 15:30

WS02.3: Session #3

Chair: Axel Müller (Huawei Technologies, France)

Session concludes with a 45 min demonstration (RF Energy Powered Charging Station for Smartphones), by Prof. Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University).
 

14:00 Wireless Information and Energy Transfer under Temperature Constraints
Omur Ozel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA); Pulkit Grover (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
14:15 Towards self-control of service rate for battery management in energy harvesting devices
Elvina Gindullina (University of Padova, Italy); Leonardo Badia (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
14:30 Simultaneously Charging Multiple Sensor Nodes in Multi-Antenna Wireless-Powered Sensor Networks
Kae Won Choi (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Phisca Rosyady, Lorenz Ginting and Arif Aziz (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea); Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea)



Sunday, May 21, 16:00 - 17:30

WS02.4: Session #4

Chair: Axel Müller (Huawei Technologies, France)

Session starts with a 45 min keynote by Prof. Arumugam Nallanathan (King's College London):
Title: Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks: Challenges, Opportunities and Research Trends
 

16:45 Joint Optimization of Cognitive RF Energy Harvesting and Channel Access using Markovian Multi-Armed Bandit Problem
Fahira Sangare and Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
17:00 Optimal Deployment for Roadside Wireless Charger with Bounded Detouring Cost
Xunpeng Rao (PLA University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Panlong Yang (Institute of Communication Engineering, PLAUST, P.R. China); Yubo Yan, Gang Liu, Maotian Zhang and Wanru Xu (PLA University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)