W10: Energy Self-Sustainable Internet of Everything for 6G

Co-Organizer: Yizhe Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Co-Organizer: Lexi Xu, China Unicom Research Institute & Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Quzhou), UESTC, China
Co-Organizer: Yongjun Xu, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Co-Organizer: Ioannis Krikidis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Luping Xiang

Keynote Speech Title: AI-Driven Foundation Models for Communication and Sensing: From Domain-Specific Designs to Unified Intelligent Frameworks

Workshop Abstract: Extremely massive connectivity for small devices has been considered as a key performance indicators for 6G to enable ubiquitous Internet of Everything (IoE), where most of devices will be either battery-powered or battery-less. How to prolong their lifetime becomes a key challenge. This calls for effort from two complementary aspects: 1) energy efficiency to reduce the IoE networks’ energy consumption, and 2) energy self-supply within the IoE networks to open up flexible and on-demand energy supply to IoE devices. It is envisioned that IoE networks will possess energy self sustainability in 6G. To make it a reality, tremendous efforts should be invested on both the base station/network side and the device side. This workshop is about to provide a forum across academia and industry to explore recent advances, research opportunities, and technical challenges in energy self-sustainable IoE networks for 6G. This workshop will bring together leading researchers to present their research in this area including novel ideas, models, methodologies, system designs and architectures, experiments and benchmarks, as well as research surveys.

 

Program:

19 October, 2025 – Shu Jin Room, 09:00 – 12:30

09:00-09:05 Workshop opening ceremony

09:05-09:30 Keynote speech, Prof. Luping Xiang

09:30-09:50 Presentation 1: Energy-Efficient Hybrid Multiple Access Design for Backscatter Communications: Device Scheduling and Resource Allocation

09:50-10:10 Presentation 2: Magnetic Induction Link Model for Wireless Communication in Underground Endogenous Environment

10:10-10:30 Presentation 3: Multiple Access Offloading Design for Optimizing Weighted PAoI-Energy in Mobile Edge Computing Systems

10:30-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-11:00 Presentation 4: Near-field NOMA-SWIPT Assisted with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas

11:00-11:20 Presentation 5: Optimizing BPSK/QPSK for Backscatter Devices in Symbiotic Backscatter Communication Radio Systems

11:20-11:40 Presentation 6: Service-Driven Physical Layer Function Orchestration Algorithm Based on Meta-Reinforcement Learning

11:40-12:00 Presentation 7: Unified Multi-carrier Integrated Data and Energy Transfer Using Helper Signal

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Keynote Speaker Bio:

Speaker: Prof. Luping Xiang

Luping Xiang (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Assistant Professor, Research Fellow, and Ph.D. supervisor at Nanjing University. He received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) from Xiamen University, China, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southampton, in 2020. From 2020 to 2021 He was a Research Fellow with the Next Generation Wireless Group, University of Southampton.  In November 2021, he joined the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) as a faculty member, and in September 2024, he joined Nanjing University as an Assistant Professor. In 2024, he was honored with the Xiaomi Young Scholar Award, he also co-founded the company Accelercomm. He is currently leading several projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s Youth Project, Provincial Youth Science Foundation, and the Special Funding Project at the Postdoctoral research. He has also received funding from the Postdoctoral International Exchange Program and has participated in multiple national key projects. He currently serves as an associate editor for the journal IET Smart Cities and as Youth Editor of the Journal of Information and Intelligence. His main research areas include native intelligence at wireless communication, end-to-end transmission technology, computer vision, and integrated sensing and communication transmission.

 

Co-Organizer’s Bios:

Yizhe Zhao

Yizhe Zhao (Member, IEEE) is currently an Associate Professor in School of Information and Communication Engineering at UESTC. His research interests focus on integrated data and energy
transfer, energy harvesting and green communications. He has published over 30 journal papers and won the Best Conference Paper Award in IEEE CSE2023. He serves for China Communications as the Guest Editor of the special issue “Energy Self-Sustainability in 6G” and serves for Journal of Communication and Information Networks as the Guest Editor of the special issue “Energy Selfsustainable IoE Networks for 6G”. He is an Appointed Officer for IEEE Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications. He is also a TPC member of several prestigious IEEE conferences, such as IEEE ICC、Globecom. He serves as the reviewer for several Journals, such as IEEE JSAC、IEEE TWC、IEEE TCOM、IEEE TNSM, and is selected as the Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE WCL as well as the Excellent Reviewer for IEEE TNSE.

Lexi Xu

Lexi Xu (Senior Member, IEEE) is now a professor level senior engineer at Research Institute, China United Network Communications Corporation (China Unicom). He is also a China Unicom
delegate in ITU, ETSI, 3GPP, CCSA. He is also a professor level senior engineer (part-time) at Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Quzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He also serves as a professor (part-time) at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He also serves as an industrial tutor (part-time) at Beijing Institute of Technology, Shenyang Aerospace University, Shenyang University of Technology, Nanchang Hangkong University, etc. He has applied for more than 50 patents, published 3 books, and edited 6 international conferences proceedings. His research interests include big data, self-organizing networks, green communications, radio resource management in wireless system, etc.

Yongjun Xu

Yongjun Xu (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Professor with the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing,
China. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 papers. His recent research interests include ISAC, resource allocation, RIS, energy harvesting, backscatter communications, mobile edge
computing, etc. He was the Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Physical Communications. He serves for IEEE Internet of Things Magazine as the Guest editor of the special issue “Passive Reflective Communications for Internet of Things”. He was a Reviewer of IEEE TWC, JSAC, TCOM, etc.

Ioannis Krikidis

Ioannis Krikidis (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. His current research interests include wireless communications, 6G communication systems, wireless powered communications. Dr. Krikidis serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and Senior Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He was the recipient of the Young Researcher Award from the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus, in 2013, and the recipient of the IEEEComSoc Best Young Professional Award in Academia, 2016, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters best paper award 2019. He has been recognized by the Web of Science as a Highly Cited Researcher for 2017-2021. He has received the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his work on wireless powered communications.