About author:HU Jie (hujie@uesct.edu.cn) received his BEng and MSc degrees from the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He received the PhD degree from the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton, UK in 2015. Since March 2016, he has been working with the School of Communication and Information Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China, as a Lecturer. He has a broad range of interests in wireless communication and networking, such as cognitive radio and cognitive networks, mobile social networks, data and energy integrated networks and tactile Internet.
ZHANG Yitian (yzhangbc@essex.ac.uk) received the BEng degree from a joint education of Beijing Institute Technology, China and University of Central Lancashire, UK. He received the MSc degree from Coventry University, UK and he is doing PhD research in University of Essex, UK. His current research interests embrace high efficiency wireless network, Internet of Things and energy harvesting system. He was partly funded by UK EPSRC Project DANCER (EP/K002643/1) in 2015 and he focused his work on energy saving in wireless sensor network. The related work was published on the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2015).
YU Qin (yuqin@uestc.edu.cn) received the BS degree in communication engineering from the Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China and the MS and PhD degrees in communication and information engineering from UESTC. She conducted postdoctoral research in information security at UESTC from 2007 to 2009. Supported by the Ministry of Education of Chinese Government, she performed visiting research at the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA. She is currently an associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information Engineering of UESTC. She is a member of IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, and Japan IEICE. Her current research interests include wireless networks/ communications, data and energy integrated wireless communication networks, and information security. She has published more than 40 papers in the above research areas.
YANG Kun (kunyang@essex.ac.uk) received his PhD from the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering of University College London (UCL), UK. He is currently a Chair Professor in the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, leading the Network Convergence Laboratory (NCL), UK. He is also an affiliated professor at UESTC. He manages research projects funded by various sources such as UK EPSRC, EU FP7/H2020 and industries. He has published more than 100 journal papers. He serves on the editorial boards of both IEEE and non-IEEE journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of IET. His main research interests include wireless networks, future internet technology and network virtualization, and mobile cloud computing and networking.
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This work was supported by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China under Grant No. ZYGX2016KYQD103.
HU Jie, ZHANG Yitian, YU Qin, and YANG Kun. Towards Practical Implementation of Data and Energy Integrated Networks[J]. ZTE Communications, 2016, 14(3): 45-54.
