CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE ICC 2013 Selected Areas in Communications Symposium Track on Green Communication Systems and Networks
Final Submission Deadline October 7, 2012 (24:00 EDT) EDAS Submission Web Link https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=12659&track=24447 Track Chair Athanassios Manikas, Imperial College London, UK, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Scope and Motivation There is a growing emphasis on environmental impact and concerns in communications and computing, with attention being paid to ecological and, even more so, economic drivers. The predicted explosive growth in the number of connected devices and Internet bandwidth necessitates "green solutions" such as smart grids, green logistics, smart buildings, and green telecommunications hardware. This track seeks to capture the current trends and cutting edge research in the sustainability and green-ness of system and network performance that incorporates "green" constraints in communications, computing, and electricity networks and relevant terminals. By promoting innovation in this critical area, substantial advances can be achieved by developing new architectures, protocols, systems, and algorithms, which, in turn, will allow significant reductions in energy consumption. This will also require considering both system components and the relevant management. This track considers not only green communications, computing, and electricity systems but also using communications and computing to support environmental sustainability. Although energy efficiency is one of the main concerns, this track also considers other non-energy green issues, such improving resource efficiency, electromagnetic pollution mitigation and pollution reduction approaches. Prospective authors are invited to submit their original work addressing new and emerging issues in communications and computing on the above themes. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of Five (5) printed pages (10- point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over length page charge if accepted). 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/downloads/template.pdf Submissions are welcome from academia, industry, and government organizations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Topics of Interest 1. Power consumption trends and reduction for wireless single/multi antenna and wireline communication systems - Pricing and billing for green communication devices and services - Home-area energy automation networks 2. Energy efficient optimizations for communications, signal processing algorithms and computing 3. Hierarchically distributed communications techniques 4. Theory, modeling, analysis, and/or optimization for green and sustainable communications and computing - End-to-end modeling and performance of green communication networks - Modeling, performance and design of green clouds - Cooperative theory, game theory and causal reasoning for green communication networks - Characterization, metrics, and modeling for energy efficient communications - Cross-layer optimizations of green communications and computing - Coordinated power and GHG emission control for network-wide optimization 5. Context-based green awareness 6. Non-energy relevant green issues, and/or approaches - Approaches for reusing materials, devices, or systems to improve resource efficiency 7. Architecture, strategies, algorithms, protocols, scheduling, and/or designs for green ICT - Power-efficient cooling and air-conditioning systems for communications and computing - Energy saving on the terminal side - Green relevant virtualization techniques - Hierarchical, distributed communication techniques 8. Green software, hardware, device, and equipment 9. Signal processing, network coding and interference cancellation for lowering the overall footprint of ICT 10. Energy minimization in core, metro, access, and local area networks - MAC, routing and transport protocols for energy minimization - Wireline network architecture design for low power operation - Traffic shaping and policy implementation for energy minimization in networks - Network monitoring for energy consumption minimization - Energy efficient architectures for wireless networks - Uncooled switching and routing components - Planning and management of energy-aware wireline or wireless networks - Self-organizing wireless networks for energy-efficiency 11. Energy efficient optical communications, signal processing, and networking - Electronic routing versus photonic switching for energy minimization - Low cost, low energy large photonic switching fabrics - Energy efficient routing for optical communications and networking - Energy efficient optical communications devices 12. Electromagnetic pollution mitigation 13. Green data storage, data centers, contention distribution networks 14. Green communications under delay or quality of service constraints 15. Physical layer approaches for green communications and computing - Signal processing for green communications and computing - Power efficient modulation and coding strategies - Energy Peak-to-average-power-ratio reduction for communication signals - Low cost, energy efficient antenna and RF designs 16. Green cognitive communications and computing 17. Green smart grids 18. Green Internet of Things 19. Green security strategies and designs 20. Energy-efficiency in wireless sensor, ad-hoc, body-area, vehicular, or cellular networks 21. Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling 22. Standardization, policy and regulation for green communications and computing - Possible avenues for standards and intervention - New standardization progresses 23. Green measurement, profiling, test-beds, and results 24. Use communications and computing to support environmental sustainability 25. Green engineering, agenda, supply chains, logistics, and audit _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
