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Recent Advances in Wireless Powered Communication Networks

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

  1. Time synchronization of clocks in the sensor nodes for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a fundamental technology for most mission-critical applications. Most of past research in time synchronization for WSNs...

    Authors: Jingsha He, Xinggang Xuan, Nafei Zhu, Na Huang and Peng He
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:220
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  2. This paper investigates the outage performance of an energy-harvesting(EH) relay-aided cooperative network, where the source node transmits information to its destination node with the help of multiple energy-...

    Authors: Shaohong Zhong, Huajun Huang and Renfa Li
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:63
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  3. This paper investigates the multi-cell coordinated beamforming (MCBF) design for secure simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in both centralized and distributed manners. In each cell, o...

    Authors: Yang Lu, Ke Xiong, Jingxian Liu, Pingyi Fan and Zhangdui Zhong
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:60
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  4. In this paper, we consider the beam-domain hybrid time-switching (TS) and power-splitting (PS) simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) protocol design in full-duplex (FD) massive multiple-...

    Authors: Kui Xu, Zhexian Shen, Yurong Wang and Xiaochen Xia
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:39
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  5. This paper evaluates the performance of the vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) fair access with a finite retry limit through constructing an analytical model. Firstly, the process of the distributed coordination ...

    Authors: Qiong Wu, Hao Zhang, Zhengquan Li, Yang Liu and Cui Zhang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:20
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  6. The developments in wireless sensor network (WSN) that enriches with the unique capabilities of cognitive radio technique are giving impetus to the evolution of Cognitive Wireless Sensor Network (CWSN). In a C...

    Authors: Cheng Wu, Yiming Wang and Zhijie Yin
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:13
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  7. This paper investigates the outage probability of an energy harvesting (EH) relay-aided cooperative network, where a source node transmits information to its destination node with the help of an energy harvest...

    Authors: Shaohong Zhong, Huajun Huang and Renfa Li
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:11
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  8. This paper investigates the two-way relay transmission over orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) channels using digital network coding. For a given amount of data to be transmitted, we formulate a...

    Authors: Yu Zhang, Ge Xiong and Xianwei Zhou
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:8
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  9. An optimal power allocation (OPA) policy for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based cognitive radio networks (CRNs) using underlay spectrum access model is presented under multiple secondary u...

    Authors: Yuanyi Wang, Xiaohui Zhao and Hui Liang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:7
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  10. Wireless rechargeable sensor networks are becoming crucial and important in recent years for the advancement of wireless energy transmission technology. The previous research showed that not all of sensors can...

    Authors: Kuei-Ping Shih and Chi-Ming Yang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2017 2017:217
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  11. The energy harvesting network in mobile environment is promising for sustainable environment and green communication. How to efficiently use the harvested energy is a key to improve the performance of energy h...

    Authors: Yinxi Tan, Shanyun Liu and Pingyi Fan
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2017 2017:189
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