Simultaneously Wireless InFormation and energy Transfer (SWIFT)

信息和能量是自然界中的两个基本概念，对生活的方方面面都有至关重要的影响。所有生物和机器实体都依赖于信息和能量来生存。生命中的大多数(如果不是全部)过程都涉及以一种或另一种形式转换、储存或传递能量或信息。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，无线电波最初的用途是能量传输，而不是信息传输。然而，尽管特斯拉在19世纪末实验证明了无线能量转移(WET)的开创性工作，现代无线通信系统主要关注射频(RF)辐射的信息内容，而忽略了信号传递的能量。该项目是英国第一个促进学术界和工业界之间创新和技术转移的跨学科倡议，以解决未来通信网络中最具挑战性和最重要的问题之一：能源和信息的同时转移。该项目的目的是为同时具有无线信息和能量传输(SWIFT)能力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，聚集了在无线通信领域具有强大和互补背景的研究人员，如电子/微波工程、信息论、博弈论、控制论和通信理论，以弥合未来基于湿法通信系统的理论和实践之间的差距。

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.