greenets 2011 - First ICST International Conference on Green Communications and Networking

First ICST International Conference on Green Communications and Networking
Colmar, France, October 5-7, 2011
http://greenets.org/

Important Dates:
Full Paper Due: May 20, 2011 by 11:59pm PDT
Notification of Acceptance: Jun. 15, 2011
Camera-ready Manuscripts due: Jul. 21, 2011

Submission Guidelines:
Please follow the author instructions at http://greenets.org/submission.shtml

Scope:
Global warming and climate change have been a growing worldwide concern. Six sources, i.e., transportation, power, buildings, industry, agriculture and forestry, and land use, have been identified as major contributors to the rise of global carbon dioxide (CO2). The mobile industry is seen as a potential enabler to reduce greenhouse gases contributed by these six sources provided that appropriate measures are implemented. On the other hand, the mobile industry itself will also contribute to CO2 emission through network operations, mobile equipments, etc. To meet the requirement of low-carbon economy development, it is necessary to reduce the operation expenditure or energy consumption of mobile networks, while maintaining acceptable quality of service. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of designing, building, and deploying GreenNets. In this regard, the conference aims to establish a forum to bring together research professionals from diverse fields including green mobile networks, system architectures, networking & communication protocols, applications, test-bed and prototype, traffic balance and energy-efficient cooperation transmission, system and application issues related to GreenNets.

TOPICS:
The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently
under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Communications and Networking:
- Communication techniques and protocols for GreenNets
- Energy-efficient transmission technologies based on the cooperation communication
- Scalable and flexible energy efficiency mobile network architectures, deployments, and applications

2. Energy-efficient network architecture & protocols:
- Scalability and mobility issues in energy efficiency cross-layer design
- MAC Protocols and QoS Designing for mobile networks

3. Systems and Technology:
- Transactions and workflows in green mobile networks
- Adaptability and stability of green mobile networks
- Mobile and multimedia supported green mobile networks
- Experimental and test bed studies for energy efficiency mobile networks, simulation tools

4. Energy-efficient management:
- Energy-efficient traffic balance, cooperation and management
- Distributed energy efficiency resource management techniques
- Protocols for cooperative management and control

Steering Committee Chairs
Athanasios Vasilakos National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Imrich Chlamtac University of Trento, Italy

General Chairs
Joel Rodrigues Institute of Telecommunications, University o f Beira Interior, Portugal
Liang Zhou Nanjing University of Posts and Telcommunications, China

Technical Program Chairs
Min Chen Seoul National University, Korea
Aravind Kailas University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA

Publication Chair
Foad Dabiri University of California Los Angeles

Sponsorship & Exhibits Chair
Pascal Lorenz University of Haute Alsace, France

Panels Chairs
Nazim Agoulmine University of Evry, France
Herve Guyennet University of Besançon, France

Demos & Tutorials Chair
Nidal Nasser University of Guelph, Canada

Poster Chair
Jaime Lloret Mauri Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Industry Co-Chairs
Haohong Wang TCL America, USA
Bin Wei AT&T, USA

Local Chair
Marc Gilg University of Haute Alsace, France