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CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Special Issue on Autonomous Battery-Free Sensing and Communication

Recently, energy harvesting technologies have emerged to address the hurdle of energy constraint in many mobile applications. Surrounding energy, from sources such as solar, wind, radio frequency, etc., can be collected and stored for sustainable operation, leading to a new area: battery-free systems. Getting rid of batteries, nodes can be applicable to scenarios where nodes with large volume and limited lifetime are not preferred. Such battery-free systems have great potential to function autonomously, doing sensing and communications tasks without attended operation from human after deployment. The challenging issue lies in how to coordinate the sensing and communications among battery-free nodes such that the system performance can be guaranteed. Since the energy arrival at nodes is typically hard to predict, some preliminary works have been done to design efficient energy management schemes. However, it is still pressing to design a new architecture that enables autonomous battery-free sensing and communications.

The objective of this call is to bring more thoughts, effort, and applications in the related areas that may help put together a clear picture for this new area. The potential interesting topics of this call include, but are not limited to: New energy harvesting technologies for battery-free systems; Energy management for perpetual operation; New architectures for battery-free sensing and communications; Resource management for autonomous operations; Operating systems for battery-free devices; Security issues in battery-free systems Emerging applications by battery-free systems Future directions for battery-free systems

The manuscript must be original and has not been under submission in any other journals or conferences. The submission will only be counted if it is submitted via the Manuscript Central website and adheres to standard ACM TECS formatting requirements. The page limit of each submission is 25. When submitting your article, please indicate that you are submitting to the Special Issue on Autonomous Batter-Free Sensing and Communications on the first page and in the field “Author's Cover Letter:” in Manuscript Central. Tentative Schedule

Manuscript Due: June 1st, 2016 First Notification: Sept. 1st, 2016 Revised version: Nov. 1st, 2016 Final notification: Jan. 1st, 2017 Publication Date: 2st quarter of 2017

Guest editors: Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, jmchen@iipc.zju.edu.cn Gil Zussman, Columbia University, gil@ee.columbia.edu Yu (Jason) Gu, IBM Watson Health, yugu@us.ibm.com

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Previously published conference papers may only be submitted if the paper is substantially extended with at least 30% new material. The extension requirement of 30% is not in textual volume but in novelty. Papers should be submitted via the Manuscript Central website and should adhere to standard ACM TECS formatting requirements (where page count limit is 25, including figures and references). Also, please indicate that you are submitting to the Special issue on "Autonomous Battery-Free Sensing and Communications" on the first page and in the field "Author's Cover Letter" in Manuscript Central. Any questions on this special issue should be addressed to Jiming Chen jmchen@iipc.zju.edu.cn

Best!

Zhikun

Zhikun Zhang （ 张治坤） Ph.D. Candidate, Group of Networked Sensing & Control (NesC) State Key Lab. of Industrial Control Technology Dept. of Control Science & Engineering (CSE), Zhejiang University. ADD: 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R.China

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