Simultaneously Wireless InFormation and energy Transfer (SWIFT)

信息和能量是自然界的两个基本概念，对生活的各个方面都有重要影响。所有生物和机器实体都依赖信息和能量来生存。生命中的大多数（如果不是全部的话）过程都涉及以一种或另一种形式转换，储存或转移能量或信息。尽管这些概念在本质上是和谐的，但在传统的工程设计中，信息和能量是由两个相互作用有限的独立系统处理的。在无线通信中，信息和能量之间的关系更加明显，因为携带信息的无线电波也传递能量。事实上，无线电波的第一次使用是用于能量传输，而不是信息传输。然而，尽管特斯拉在19世纪后期实验性地展示了无线能量传输（WET）的开创性工作，但现代无线通信系统主要关注射频（RF）辐射的信息内容，忽略了信号传输的能量。该项目是第一个跨学科的倡议，以促进创新和技术转让学术界和工业界在英国的未来通信网络中最具挑战性和最重要的问题之一：能源和信息的同时传输。该项目的目的是为具有同时无线信息和能量传输（SWIFT）功能的下一代网络的设计和运营开发一个新的理论框架。研究工作是跨学科的，汇集了在无线通信领域，如电子/微波工程，信息论，博弈论，控制理论和通信理论的强大和互补的背景研究人员，以弥合理论和实践之间的差距差距未来基于湿的通信系统。

Information and energy are two fundamental notions in nature with critical impact on all aspects of life. All living and machine entities rely on both information and energy for their existence. Most, if not all, processes in life involve transforming, storing or transferring energy or information in one form or the other. Although these concepts are in harmony in nature, in traditional engineering design, information and energy are handled by two separate systems with limited interaction. In wireless communications, the relationship between information and energy is even more apparent as radio waves that carry information also transfer energy. Indeed, the first use of radio waves was for energy transfer rather than information transmission. However, despite the pioneering work of Tesla, who experimentally demonstrated wireless energy transfer (WET) in the late 19th century, modern wireless communication systems mainly focus on the information content of the radio-frequency (RF) radiation, neglecting the energy transported by the signal. This project is the first interdisciplinary initiative to promote innovation and technology transfer between academia and industry in the UK for one of the most challenging and most important problems in future communication networks: The simultaneous transfer of both energy and information. The aim of this project is to develop a new theoretical framework for the design and operation of next-generation networks with simultaneously wireless information and energy transfer (SWIFT) capabilities. The research efforts are interdisciplinary and bring together researchers with strong and complementary backgrounds in the domain of wireless communications such as electronics/microwave engineering, information theory, game theory, control theory, and communication theory to bridge the gap between theory and practice of future WET-based communication systems.