EHGW 2013 - 2013 Symposium on: Energy Harvesting and Green Wireless Communications

Wireless communication networks composed of devices that can harvest energy from nature represent the green future of wireless. Utilizing harvested ambient energy for operation of wireless networks improves the environmental impact of wireless devices in the global scale, while extending the network lifetime indefinitely and making the devices truly mobile in the network. Energy harvesting brings new dimensions to system design in the form of randomness and intermittency of available energy, as well as additional system issues to be concerned about such as energy storage capacity and processing complexity, all of which call for novel signal and information processing techniques. Additionally, deployment of energy harvesting wireless communication networks and their integration to the wireless broadband access structure will require effective resource and interference management, cooperation and collaboration between energy harvesting nodes and battery powered devices/access points/small cell base stations, making signal processing algorithms to accomplish these goals invaluable.
The goal of this proposed workshop will be to bring together researchers in energy harvesting and wireless communications, and provide a forum for dissemination of novel research results.
Submissions of at most 4 pages in two-column IEEE format are welcome on topics including:
Physical layer design for energy harvesting communications
Signal processing for energy harvesting communication
Information theory of energy harvesting communications
Network theoretic approaches for energy harvesting communications
Energy and message cooperation
Energy efficient MIMO
Design of green wireless communication systems with hybrid energy sources
Heterogeneous green wireless communications systems
Small cell networks and green communications