[Tccc] ICC'12 Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Cooperation for Green Networking - CFP

Claudia Barbosa cbarbosa
Fri Nov 11 15:14:57 EST 2011


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Call for Papers

IEEE ICC Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Cooperation for 
Green Networking (GREENETWORKING)

In conjunction with ICC2012, Ottawa, Canada

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Paper Submission - 30-11-2011
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11475&track=18653

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http://www.av.it.pt/greenetworking/

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The world is becoming an energy conscious society having a 
profound impact on today's digital revolution. Current 
shopping habits for electrical goods indicate that 
consumers take the time to check the energy label to see 
how energy compliant the new acquisition could be. This 
paradigm is slowly spreading to the mobile industry and 
will play a key role in market penetration for future 
handsets.
The mobile phone of tomorrow will be more sophisticated in 
nature, tending towards a personal area space that can 
support mobile internet resulting in power hungry devices. 
If we are to maintain market sustainability, then there is 
a clear need for prolonged battery lifetime: the word 
mobile is taken as de facto, in that users have the 
freedom to roam around and be connected to the best 
available technology at any time; however, if preventive 
measures are not taken to conserve energy, then users 
could be restricted to the nearest power supply falling 
victim to the so called ?Energy Trap?.
On one hand, operators see a potential benefit from 
investing in energy compliant systems since 98% of the 
energy consumption is on the network side, meaning that 
huge savings can be fore-seen in the operators? 
electricity bill. On the other hand, instead of preventing 
energy loss, en-ergy can be perceived as a tradable 
commodity leading to new potential sources of revenue for 
end users and operators since everyone can relate to 
instances when they need to make that important call and 
the battery logo is flashing whilst on the move ...
Key technologies for energy conservation and management 
include cognitive and cooperative strategies, which are 
seen as disruptive in nature:
- Cooperative strategies can be applied on several layers, 
ranging from radio relaying to social networking; and 
clearly they dictate how a group of entities can interact 
and assist each other to achieve a common goal.
- Cognitive radio is a traditional subject that has been 
applied to spectrum management, whereas here we refer to 
the way we can make systems more intelligent based on 
sensing, and reacting to the surrounding environment.

The joint application of these two technologies has led 
towards new paradigms in network design and deployment for 
energy saving, providing a stepping stone towards economic 
and environmental sustainability for the future.
This workshop intends to bring together academic and 
industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical 
challenges and recent results related to energy efficiency 
from user devices through to the core infrastructure of 
the network and how these devices and equipment interact 
among each other.

In such context, this workshop will address diverse 
topics:
- Cognitive radios and networks
- Cooperative networks and communication
- Context awareness and signalling for energy saving 
strategies
- Virtual MIMO
- Coordinated Multipoint
- Short range energy efficient communication
- Cooperative relaying for energy saving
- Energy efficient networking topologies and deployment
- Energy-efficient vertical handover procedures and 
policies
- Reconfigurable radios and software defined radios
- Experimental test-beds and results for energy efficient 
communication techniques
- Standardization and regulatory aspects and activities 
for power efficient communication
- Advanced energy saving strategies in legacy and future 
emerging technologies.
- Business models and incentives for energy saving.

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Papers should be written in English with a standard length 
of five (5)
printed pages (10-point font) including figures, without 
incurring
additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with 
extra charge if
accepted). You may use the standard IEEE Transactions 
templates for
Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html.
Alternatively you can follow the sample instructions in 
template.pdf at
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/template.pdf. 
Only PDF files are
accepted for paper review. Your submitted PDF file and 
registered EDAS
account of a paper must list the same author(s), title and 
abstract (minor
wording differences in the abstract are ok). Papers where 
the PDF and EDAS
account do not match the author(s), title, and/or abstract 
will be withdrawn
by the Technical Program Co-Chairs or Symposium Co-Chairs.


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Workshop Chairs
Dr. Ayman Radwan [Inst. Telecomunica??es, Portugal]
Dr. Jonathan Rodriguez [Inst. Telecomunica??es, Portugal]
Dr. Hossam S. Hassanein [Queen?s University, Canada]


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Important Dates

Paper Submission deadline - Nov. 30th 2011
Acceptance notification - Feb. 1st, 2012



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