Special Session on “Energy Harvesting and Wireless Powered Communications” at SPAWC 2019, Cannes, France

For its 20th anniversary edition, the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) 2019, returns to the country that saw its birth, France. Held in Cannes, in the heart of the world renown “French Riviera” (Côte d’Azur in French), SPAWC 2019 hosts the special session on “Energy Harvesting and Wireless Powered Communications”.

http://www.spawc2019.org

Organizing Committee 

• Kostas Berberidis (University of Patras, Greece)
• Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
• Samir M. Perlaza (INRIA, France).

Invited Talks

1. “Channel estimation in MIMO ambient backscatter communication systems” by Christos Mavrokefalidis (University of Patras, Greece), Dimitris Ampeliotis (University of Patras, Greece), Kostas Berberidis (University of Patras, Greece).
2. “Latency and Reliability Tradeoff in Simultaneous Information and Energy Transmission” by Nizar Khalfet (INRIA, France) and Samir M. Perlaza (INRIA, France).
3. “Polar Codes for Simultaneous Information and Energy Transmission” by Lav Varshney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL).
4. “Learning Modulation Design for SWIPT with Nonlinear Energy Harvester: Large and Small Signal Regimes” by Morteza Varasteh (Imperial College, UK), Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College, UK) and Jakob Hoydis (Nokia, France).
5. “Average Age of Information for Wireless Powered Communication Systems” by Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) and Constantinos Psomas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus).