Tutorial 4 

Energy Harvesting Wireless Communication Networks 

Energy Harvesting Wireless Communication Networks

Energy harvesting (EH) sensors are increasingly being deployed in place of their traditional, battery-operated counterparts, when factors such as the sheer number of nodes or inaccessibility render battery replacement difficult and cost-prohibitive. The applications of EH sensors are diverse, ranging from industrial and environmental monitoring, to smart buildings and grid asset monitoring. In contrast to battery-operated sensors, where minimizing energy consumption is crucial to prolong lifetime, in EH sensors, the objective is the intelligent management of the harvested energy to ensure long-term, uninterrupted operation. This tutorial will provide a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the design of energy management policies for EH communication systems. We focus on analytical models that capture the main challenges related to their design: the intermittent nature of harvested energy, the limited capacity and energy leakage in energy storage devices, and the constraints on sensor size and complexity.


Biographies

Kostas Stamatiou
received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical
University of Athens in 1995 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2004 and 2009, respectively, from the University of California San Diego. From 2009 to 2010 he was a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, and from 2010 to 2012 he held a
research appointment at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy. He currently holds a Research Associate position at the Centre Tecn`ologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain. His research interests lie in the areas of communication theory, stochastic geometry and random networks, and stochastic control as applied to the design of energy harvesting systems.
Dr. Stamatiou received the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology Fellowship (CalIT2) in 2002 and the Marie Curie Fellowship in 2010. He has served as TPC member for the Communication Theory Symposium of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), and as reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and the IEEE Communications Letters.

Deniz Gunduz
received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Middle East Technical University in 2002, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He is a lecturer in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of Imperial College London, London, UK. Previously he was a research associate at CTTC in Barcelona, Spain. He also held a visiting researcher position at Princeton University from November 2009 until November 2011. Before joining CTTC he was a consulting assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University and a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University. He is the recipient of a Marie Curie Reintegration Grant funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the 2008 Alexander Hessel Award of Polytechnic Institute of New York University given to the best PhD Dissertation, and a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, and served as a guest editor of
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Optimization Techniques in Wireless Communication Networks. He was an organizer and the general co-chair of the 2012 European School of Information Theory (ESIT). His research interests lie in the areas of communication theory and information
theory with special emphasis on joint source-channel coding, multi-user networks, energy efficient communications and 2 security.

Michele Zorzi
was born in Venice, Italy, on December 6th, 1966. He received the Laurea and the PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. During the Academic Year 1992/93, he was on leave at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) as a visiting PhD student, working
on multiple access in mobile radio networks. In 1993, he joined the faculty of the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. After spending three years with the Center for Wireless Communications at UCSD, in 1998 he joined the School of Engineering of the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he became a Professor in 2000. Since November 2003, he has been on the faculty at the Information Engineering Department of the University of Padova. His present research interests include performance evaluation in mobile communications systems, random
access in mobile radio networks, ad hoc and sensor networks, energy constrained communications protocols, broadband wireless access and underwater acoustic communications and networking.
Dr. Zorzi was the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEEWIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE from 2003 to 2005 and the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS from 2008 to 2011, and currently serves on the Editorial Board of the WILEY JOURNAL OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING.
He was also guest editor for special issues in the IEEE PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE (Energy Management in Personal Communications Systems) IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE (Cognitive Wireless Networks) and the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS (Multimedia Network Radios, and Underwater Wireless Communications Networks). He served as a Member-at-large of the Board of
Governors of the IEEE Communications Society from 2009 to 2011.

 
 
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