Wireless Information and Power Transfer
by Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Trung Q. Duong, Caijun Zhong, Robert Schober
1The Era of Wireless Information and Power Transfer
Derrick Wing Kwan Ng1*, Trung Q. Duong2, Caijun Zhong3, and Robert Schober4
1School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Australia
2School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom
3Institute of Information and Communication Engineering, Zhejiang University, China
4Institute for Digital Communications, Friedrich‐Alexander‐University Erlangen‐Nuremberg (FAU), Germany
1.1 Introduction
In recent decades, the rapid development of wireless communication technologies has triggered a massive growth in the number of wireless communication devices for various practical applications, including e‐health, autonomous control, logistics and transportation, environmental monitoring, energy management, safety management, etc. It is expected that in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), there will be 50 billion wireless communication devices connected together worldwide via the Internet with a connection density of 1 million devices per
[1]. In particular, small wireless sensor modules will be unobtrusively and invisibly integrated into clothing, walls, and vehicles at locations which are inaccessible for wired/manual recharging. However, battery‐powered wireless communication devices have limited energy storage capacity and their ...
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