Guest Editorial: Wireless Communications Powered by Energy Harvesting and Wireless Energy Transfer (Part I)

The papers in this special issue presents cutting-edge research results in the emerging area of energy harvesting wireless communications and wireless energy transfer. This first issue starts with a review article coauthored by the guest editors that summarizes recent results in the broad area of energy harvesting communications, in particular, in information-theoretic, offline and online schedulingtheoretic, medium access, networking approaches to energy harvesting communications, as well as in energy cooperation and simultaneous wireless energy and information transfer