2012 - Special Issue on Wireless Green Communications and Networking

Computer Communications (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom)
Special Issue on
Wireless Green Communications and Networking

Scope
Global energy consumption is currently one of the major concerns faced by governments worldwide, because of its significant environmental footprint and the eventual exhaustion, in a not-so-far future, of the major traditional energy sources.

A major role in the "greening" effort to globally reduce energy consumption will be played by wireless networking technologies.

On the one hand, wireless communication infrastructures, like the ones managed by mobile network operators, are a major contributor to the ever-increasing energy consumption of the ICT industry, which calls for the adoption of energy-efficient solutions in their design and operation. Moreover, the recent explosive growth of smartphones market adoption and the consequent mobile internet traffic requirements, predicted to raise by a factor 39x until 2014, have prompted waves of research and standard development activities to meet the expected future demands in an energy-efficient manner.

On the other hand, wireless networks will also be a major component of the communication infrastructure required by other "green" solutions for the efficient management of energy, since they enable practices like telecommuting (for, e.g., traffic reduction) and remote administration (for, e.g., the Smart Energy Grid), which are expected to significantly help reduce the environmental footprint of many human activities.

The aim of this special issue is to seek new and unpublished contributions addressing wireless communications and networking as a major component in the design of green solutions in both ICT and non-ICT domains. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Energy-efficiency in mobile and wireless access networks
- Energy-efficiency in vehicular networks
- Energy-efficiency in wireless sensor networks
- Energy-efficient wireless network management
- Cross-layer optimization of green wireless networks
- Performance evaluation and modeling of green wireless networks
- Standardization related to wireless green communications and networking
- Green wireless network planning and optimization
- Wireless networking for the Smart Grid
- Wireless networking for the Green Home
- Wireless networking for energy-efficient buildings
- Wireless networking for energy-efficient industrial automation
- Wireless networking for green intelligent transportation systems
- Wireless networking for green Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication

Important dates
Submission date: June 30, 2011
Author notification: October 15, 2011
Expected publication: 1st quarter 2012

Guest Editors

Enzo Mingozzi
University of Pisa, Italy
e.mingozzi-AT-iet.unipi.it

Xavier Perez-Costa
NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany
Xavier.Perez-Costa-AT-neclab.eu

Catherine Rosenberg
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
cath-AT-ece.uwaterloo.ca

Shugong Xu
Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China
shugong-AT-huawei.com

Submission instructions
The submitted papers must describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Papers must be submitted through the Computer Communications website at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom, where guidelines for the manuscript preparation can also be found. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Special Issue, please select "Special Issue: Wireless Green" when you reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process.