SIREN 2016 - First International Workshop on Sustainability, Implementation and Resilience of Energy-Aware Networks (SIREN)

First International Workshop on Sustainability, Implementation and Resilience of Energy-Aware Networks (SIREN) (in conjunction with IEEE ICNC, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, 15th - 18th February 2016) in collaboration with the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing.
SIREN Website
http://people.kth.se/~pmonti/SIREN_2016/index.html
In the past years the energy efficiency of communication networks has been the focus of extensive research. This is due to the fact that the power consumption of communication networks has grown to become a critical issue, being that the Information and Communication Technology sector accounts for up to 7% of the entire electricity production. Additionally, user traffic is expected to notably increase in the future, due to the increase of the number of subscribers as well as the continued expansion of bandwidth-hungry services. In this context, different green approaches have been proposed in order to reduce the energy consumption of both wired and wireless networks, at all layers, and in all network segments (i.e., access, metro/aggregation, and core).
Although the benefits in terms of energy saving are clear, the implications of introducing energy-aware techniques and installing energy-aware devices are still at an early stage. More in depth, it is of particular importance to understand the sustainability of energy-aware networks, focusing on the costs derived from energy-aware networks as well as on the possibility to exploit renewable sources to power the communication devices. As a second issue, the investigation of energy-aware solutions in terms of implementation aspects is a mandatory step. In this context, solutions considering testbed implementation and evaluation of energy-aware networks are of central importance. These solutions may also integrate state-of-the-art paradigms like Software Defined Networking (SDN), 5G technology, and Elastic Optical Networks (EONs). Finally, energy-aware networking should also consider the impact on reliability. In particular, we call for solutions considering energy-aware resilient networks as well as studies of the impact of the energy-aware policies on the failure rate of networking equipment.
The workshop is open to submissions covering sustainable, implementable, and/or resilient energy- aware solutions. We expect contributions covering these aspects in access, metro, backbone and datacenter networks. The range of topics addressed by this workshop is wide, including, but not limited to:
- Sustainable backbone networks
- Sustainable cellular networks (3G-4G-5G)
- Sustainable datacenter networks
- Cost analysis of green networks
- Backbone/cellular/datacenter networks powered by renewable sources
- Software Defined Networking (SDN) energy-aware
- Energy-aware Elastic Optical Networks (EONs)
- Testbed implementation of energy-aware backbone/cellular/datacenter networks
- Measurement of energy-consumption in green networks
- Energy-aware protocols
- Standardization techniques for energy-aware networks
- Energy-aware emulation of communication networks
- Energy-aware resilient networks
- Energy and failure tradeoffs in backbone/cellular/datacenter networks
- Failure modeling in energy-aware networks
- Failure measurements in energy-aware networks
- Energy- and resilient-aware algorithms in communication networks
- Lifetime-aware backbone/cellular/datacenter networks
- Monetary energy savings vs. equipment costs analysis
- Smart grid communication networks
- Interoperation between electrical networks and communication networks
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015
Acceptance Notification: Sept. 30, 2015
Camera-Ready: Oct. 20, 2015
General Chairs
Luca Chiaraviglio - University of Rome Sapienza, Italy
Paolo Monti - KTH, Sweden
Steering Committee
Jiajia Chen - KTH, Sweden
Filip Idzikowski - Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Dan Kilper - University of Arizona, USA
Marco Listanti - University or Rome Sapienza, Italy
Josip Lorincz - University or Split, Croatia
Lena Wosinska - KTH, Sweden
Jinsong Wu - University of Chile, Chile