[Tccc] IEEE ICC 2012 Workshop on Green Communications and Networking

Richard Yu Richard_yu
Wed Jan 4 10:29:10 EST 2012


IEEE ICC 2012 Workshop on Green Communications and Networking



http://www.csit.carleton.ca/~fyu/ICC12_GCN/



Full Paper Submission: Jan. 7, 2012



Scope:

As concerns about climate change, rising fossil fuel prices and energy
security increase, companies and governments around the world are committing
great efforts to develop new technologies for the green strategies
addressing climate change globally and facilitating low greenhouse gas (GHG)
development. Currently, the GHG emissions produced by the Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) industry alone are said to be equivalent to
the GHG emissions of the entire aviation industry. It is estimated that one
small computer server generates as much GHG as a sport utility vehicle
(SUV). Furthermore, with the increasing demand for higher data rates, the
energy consumption for the ICT industry is increasing by 16?20% per year,
and the energy costs for mobile network operators can already be as high as
half of their annual operating budgets. Since the GHG footprint of the ICT
sector is dominated by electricity consumption, an obvious way to reduce
emissions is to focus on efficient energy consumption and use as much
electricity from renewable sources as possible. In addition, the role of
green communications and networking technologies includes not only the
emission reduction and energy savings in products and services, but also
enabling low GHG emissions in other industries, such as electric power.
Indeed, networks are crucial technologies for a smart power grid, which
monitors, protects and optimizes the operation of its interconnected
elements from end to end, with two-way flow of electricity and information
to create an automated and distributed energy delivery network.

This Workshop on "Green Communications and Networking" provides a forum for
discussions of all these most recent developments and brings together
industry and academia, engineers and researchers. The Workshop is in
conjunction with IEEE ICC'2012 conference (  <http://www.ieee-icc.org/>
http://www.ieee-icc.org/ )

The workshop will address all issues related to green communications and
networking, including, but not limited to, the following:

* Trends and challenges of achieving low energy consumption and low GHG
emission

* Energy efficiency and GHG emission metrics and measurements in
communication networks

* Communication networks for smart grids

* Regulation and standardization

* Energy efficient hardware, devices and designs

* Coordinated power and GHG emission control for network-wide optimization

* QoS provisioning and resource management in green radio networks

* MAC, routing and transport protocols for green communication networks

* Cross-layer optimization of green communication networks

* End-to-end modeling and performance of green communication networks

* Pricing and billing for green communication devices and services

* Green 3G/4G/5G, wireless wide area infrastructures, short range networks,
mesh topologies

* Security of green communication networks

* Signal processing for green communication networks

* Information theory for green communication networks

* Cooperative theory, game theory and causal reasoning for green
communication networks

* Interdisciplinary research for green communication networks

* Standards, policy and regulation for green communication networks

* Experimental test-beds and results

Contribution format

The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original,
previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by
another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and
development. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum
paper length of five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including figures.
Submissions longer than 5 pages will not be considered.

Paper submission
http://edas.info/N11463

Schedule
* Full Paper Submission: Jan. 7, 2012
* Notification of Acceptance: Mar. 1, 2012
* Camera-ready version + Author Registration: Apr. 1, 2012

Organizing Committee:

General Chair:

Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada

http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~vleung/

vleung at ece.ubc.ca



TPC Co-Chairs:

Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

http://www.tamu.edu/~xizhang

xizhang at ece.tamu.edu



F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada

http://www.csit.carleton.ca/~fyu/

richard_yu at carleton.ca






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