Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this. *************************************************************************************** Green Broadband Access: energy efficient wireless and wired network solutions http://web.it.kth.se/~pmonti/WS_ICC_13/index in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2013 June 9-13, 2012, Budapest, Hungary
Paper registration deadline is January 4 2013. The submission deadline is January 11 2013. *************************************************************************************** There is a rising concern for the energy consumption of communication networks. It has been estimated that the global ICT energy consumption amounts to 7% of the entire electricity production. The access segment is of particular importance as it amounts to more than half of the total energy consumption associated with communication networks. These figures hold for current traffic loads, while projections show that by the year 2015 capacity requirements will be 25-30 times larger than today, with an expectation that by the year 2020 we will witness a thousand-folds increase in traffic. For the wired access side, Passive Optical Networks (PONs), long reach PONs, and point-to-point fiber access solutions are becoming an energy efficient and attractive alternative. For wireless access, with the rapidly increasing bandwidth demands in mobile networks, and with the evolution towards more dense or heterogeneous networks, it is of particular importance to understand means of reducing the transmission and processing energy consumption of mobile devices. There are also indications that the backhaul contribution to power consumption will grow as mobile networks become denser, potentially reducing the benefits of energy efficient wireless access strategies. This calls for a holistic understanding of the energy optimization process of entire broadband access segment as a whole. This workshop thus aims to bring in world experts in all aspects of green broadband access communication design and networking. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Energy efficient MIMO • Green massive MIMO • Green cooperation • Femtocell networks and energy efficiency • Multi-tier interference management and energy efficiency • Base station energy consumption and optimization • Small cell networks • Energy and message cooperation • Energy harvesting communication network design • Transmission policies for energy harvesting nodes • Receiver side energy issues • Energy harvesting and consumption policies for rechargeable nodes • Green backhauling strategies and architectures • Energy efficient wireless access deployment strategies • Standby/Idle power management • Sleep techniques for Passive Optical Networks (PONs) • Cooperative and collaborative networking for wireless broadband access • Techno-economic assessment of green broadband solutions • Quality of service aware energy efficient algorithms • Green DSL access solutions • Node consolidation and active equipment elimination • Load adaptive fixed and wireless networks • Energy efficient point-to-point access solutions Workshop General Chairs - Prof. Aylin Yener, PSU, USA - Prof. Jens Zander, KTH, Sweden Workshop Steering Committee - Prof. Merouane Debbah, Supelec, France - Dr. Paolo Monti, KTH Sweden - Dr. Björn Skubic, Ericsson AB, Sweden - Dr. Luca Valcarenghi, SSSUP, Italy Workshop website: http://web.it.kth.se/~pmonti/WS_ICC_13/index --- Paolo Monti, PhD Optical Networks Laboratory (ONLab) Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden http://web.it.kth.se/~pmonti/ _______________________________________________ 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
