This special series focuses on wireless powered communication networks, which offers important contributions in the effort to speed up the wireless powered communication in future energy-constrained networks, such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs), wireless personal area networks (WPAN), wireless body area networks (WBAN), Internet ofThings (IoT) and RFID networks, etc. It investigates many fundamental problems in wireless powered communication networks including the network architecture design, transmission protocol and strategy design, resource allocation and cross-layer optimization.
Edited by: Ke Xiong, Yunquan Dong, Zhi Chen, Marco Di Renzo and Bruno Clerckx