CCSES 2012 - The 1st IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Green Networking and Smart Grids

1st INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control for Sustainable Energy Systems: Green Networking and Smart Grids
http://csl.illinois.edu/smart-grid
Call for papers:
As concerns about climate change, rising fossil fuel prices and energy
security increase, companies and governments around the world are committing
great efforts toward developing new technologies for green strategies lowering
greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and reducing total energy consumption. For
these efforts to be sustainable, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
sector must overcome a number of challenges, such as: reducing the life-cycle resource
consumption of the exploding market in mobile devices; using as little electricity
from non-renewable sources as possible; improving efficiency of the individual
devices; and managing complex interconnected systems, communication products and services.
Conversely, the ICT can improve the sustainability of activities in the physical
world and lower GHG emissions in other industries, notably electric power generation
and distribution. Advanced communications and networking technologies are expected to
play a vital role in future power systems and smart grid infrastructures. They will
provide a two-way information flow to enable more efficient monitoring, control, and
optimization of different grid functionalities, including two-way energy flow between
smart power devices.
The Workshop on Communications and Control for Sustainable Energy Systems: Green
Networking and Smart Grids is intended to provide a forum for discussion on all these
most recent developments and bring together industry and academia, engineers and researchers.
The workshop is in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2012 conference (http://www.ieee-infocom.org/)
and it is organized in two tracks: one focused on Designing Sustainable ICT, and the other one
devoted to Smart Grid Systems. While the two tracks have different foci and have separate program
committees (but a common steering committee), the workshop will provide a unique occasion for two
communities with complementary interests and common goals to meet and share ideas and visions.
Topics of Interest:
Track 1: Designing Sustainable ICT
-Trends and challenges of achieving low energy consumption and low GHG emission
-Working towards net-zero emission networks and data centers
-Operating ICT from intermittent renewable energy
-Application of delay-tolerant networking to networks powered by renewables
-Energy harvesting in "mainstream" (non-sensor) networks
-Lifecycle analysis of ICT
-Jevons' paradox / the "rebound effect" of increased efficiency in ICT
-Energy efficiency and GHG emission metrics and measurements in communication networks
-Energy efficient hardware, devices and designs
-Coordinated power and GHG emission control for network-wide optimization
-MAC, routing and transport protocols for green communication networks
-Cross-layer optimization of green communication networks
-End-to-end modeling and performance of green communication networks
-Pricing and billing for green communication devices and services
-Security of green communication networks
-Signal processing for green communication networks
-Information theory for green communication networks
-Cooperative theory, game theory and causal reasoning for green communication networks
-Interdisciplinary research for green communication networks
-Standards, policy and regulation for green communication networks
-Experimental test-beds and results
Track 2: Smart Grid Systems
-Communication architectures and protocols for smart grids
-Advanced control of micro-grid distribution networks
-Smart grids for green communications and green computing
-Advanced metering infrastructure and smart meter technologies
-Distributed generation and storage systems
-Wide-area measurement and monitoring systems
-Demand response management and load shaping
-Power line communications and physical layer design for smart grid communications
-Integration of green and renewable (wind, solar, geothermal, etc.) energy sources
-Smart grid cyber security, intrusion detection, false data injection attacks
-Sensor and actuator networks for smart grid
-Dynamic pricing for networked constrained electricity markets and deregulation
-Consumer privacy protection and load altering attacks
-Vehicle-to-grid networks and interconnection of electric vehicles
-Distributed fault detection and communication-based robust control of smart grid
-Home-area energy automation networks, ZigBEE and home-plug solutions
-Cognitive radio and applications in smart grid communications
-Time synchronization protocols for real-time smart grid operation
-Transmission switching and routing technologies for smart grid
-Quality-of-Service and service differentiation on power networks
-Smart grid communications standardization, regulation, and interoperability
-Test-beds and field trials for smart grid communications and networking
Steering Committee
-Lachlan Andrew (Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia)
-Tamer Başar (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
-H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
-Peter W. Sauer (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
General Chairs
-Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)
-Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
-Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA)
TPC Chairs Track 1
-Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
-F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)

TPC Chairs Track 2
-Merouane Debbah (SUPELEC, France)
-Walid Saad (University of Miami, USA)
-Quanyan Zhu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
TPC Members
Kamran Arshad (University of Surrey, UK)
Raffaele Bolla (University of Genova, Italy)
Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo)
Jun Cai (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research, USA)
Jichuan Chang (HP Labs)
Peter Chong (Nanyang Technological University)
Alberto Conte (Alcatel, France)
Paul Cotae (Univ. of the District of Columbia, USA)
Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Oliver Holland (King’s College London, UK)
Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Daniel Kilper (Alcatel‐Lucent, USA)
Christoph Lange (Deutsche Telekom, Germany)
Hai Jiang (University of Alberta, Canada)
Karl Johansson (KTH, Sweden)
Aman Kansal (Microsoft Research)
Ghassan Karame (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Himanshu Khurana (Honeywell, USA)
Yevgeni Koucheryavy (Tampere Univ. of Tech.)
Lutz Lampe (University of British Columbia)
Jean‐Yves Le Boudec (EPFL, Switzerland)
Long Le (MIT, USA)
Laurent Lefevre (ENS-Lyon, France)
Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)
Marco Listanti (University of Rome La Sapienza)
Wayne Manges (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Ian Marshall (Lancaster University)
Ibrahim Matta (Boston University, USA)
Miles McQueen (Idaho National Laboratory)
Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Lamine Mili (Virginia Tech, USA)
Jelena Misic (Ryerson University, Canada)
Jean-Marc Pierson (IRIT, France)
Mario Pickavet (Gent University, Belgium)
Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University)
Kevin (Qixiang) Pang (General Dynamics, Canada)
Yi Qian (University of Nebraska, USA)
Balaji Rengarajan (Institute IMDEA Networks)
Craig Rieger (Idaho National Laboratory)
Gianluca Rizzo (Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain)
Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo)
Dario Rossi (Telecom Paris Tech, France)
Hamed Mohsenian-Rad (Texas Tech University)
Md. Mostafizur Rahman (Univ. of Manitoba)
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen (University of Waterloo)
Lei Shu (Osaka University, Japan)
Wei Song (University of California, Berkeley)
Helen Tang (DRDC‐Ottawa, Canada)
Joseph Teo (Institute for InfoComm Research)
Tuan Trinh (Budapest Unversity of Technology and Economics)
Ping Wang (Nanyang Technological University)
Adam Wierman (Caltech, USA)
Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin, Germany)
Vincent Wong (University of British Columbia)
Yang Xiao (University of Alabama)
Qin Xin (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)
Lisa Zhang (Agilent-Lucent Bell Labs)
Yan Zhang (Simula, Norway)
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: Dec. 1, 2011
Author Notification: Jan. 2, 2012
Camera-Ready Deadline: Jan 15, 2012
Workshop Date: March 30, 2012
Submission Guidelines:
The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished,
complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing
state-of-the-art research and development. All submissions should be written in English with
a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures. Submissions
longer than 6 pages will not be considered.