EHMEWC 2013 - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Energy Harvesting, Measurement and Evaluation for Wireless Communications (EHMEWC)

2nd IEEE International Workshop on
Energy Harvesting, Measurement and Evaluation for Wireless
Communications (EHMEWC),
to be held in conjunction with
IEEE ICC'13
Budapest, Hungary, June 9th to 13th, 2013
URL: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~seyedi/EHMEWC.html
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Abstract Registration: Jan 4th 2013
Paper Submission: Jan 11th 2013
Author Notification: Feb 22nd 2013
Camera Ready Paper: Mar 8th 2013
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Energy Harvesting Communications (EHC) offers the tantalizing
possibility of perpetual operation, as the communicating nodes only use
the energy harvested from their environment for processing and
communication. However, the energy harvesting process may be sporadic,
due to which nodes may temporarily run out of energy. Algorithms and
protocols need to be designed that are robust to the sporadic and
possibly limited energy resources available for sensing and communication.
Energy efficiency (EE) is a topic of very active research in wireless
communications and networking. However, realistic evaluations in
real-world deployments are challenging and time consuming. Often,
different simplifying assumptions are made, which makes the results (a)
applicable only in specific scenarios, and (b) hard to compare across
literature. There is thus a need to come up with standardized tools for
benchmarking, and to develop absolute yardsticks against which all
schemes that strive to improve the EE of communications can be evaluated
and compared. With the recent advances in simulator tools as well as an
increasing number of testbeds, the next step in evaluating energy
efficiency is now practicable: realistic evaluations of energy
efficiency for wireless systems, wireless sensor networks and mobile
systems.
This workshop aims to bring together academic experts and industrial
researchers interested in the design and development of EHC, realistic
evaluations of the EE and energy consumption of architectures and
protocols, and novel applications in wireless communications and
networks. It will create a forum for researchers to share results and
collectively identify design principles for optimizing the performance
of EHC and EE evaluations.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
* Fundamental information theoretic limits of EHC
* Harvesting-Aware MAC and routing protocols
* Cooperative communications and relaying using EHC
* Quality of Service in EHC systems
* Lifetime enhancement of conventional networks using EHC
* Novel applications of EHC
* Realistic design and evaluation of EE protocols in wireless networks
* Implementations, Testbeds and Experimental results
* Energy measurement methodologies and concepts
* Experiences and lessons learned from real-world EE evaluations
Workshop Chairs & Organizers
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Alireza Seyedi (General Chair) University of Central Florida
Torsten Braun University of Bern
Mesut Güneş Freie Universität Berlin
Christian Haas Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Chandra Murthy IISc Bangalore
Joachim Wilke Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Martina Zitterbart Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michele Zorzi University of Padova & UCSD.