SGCNet 2012 - The IEEE ICCC 2012 Workshop on Smart and Green Communications & Networks (SGCNet)

The IEEE ICCC 2012 Workshop on Smart and Green Communications & Networks (SGCNet) August 15, 2012 Beijing, China http://ccf.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~smcheng/SGCNet2012/
The IEEE ICCC 2012 Workshop on Smart and Green Communications & Networks will be held in Beijing, China. Energy consumption and electromagnetic pollution are societal and economic challenges of prime importance that developed countries have to tackle. The evolution of future communication infrastructures will have to consider both the aforementioned factors. Since 2006, data traffic on wireless networks has grown by approximately 400% and is expected to continue to increase rapidly in the coming years. The widespread use of complex, spectrum efficient techniques to support such high data volumes, the demand for higher data rates and the everincreasing number of wireless users translate to rapidly rising power consumption. Currently consuming 3% of the energy and causing 2% of the CO2 emissions globally, the ICT industries are facing an increase in associated energy consumption of 16-20% per year. Furthermore, the energy costs for mobile operators can be as high as half of their annual operating budgets. The going considerations highlight the urgent need for designing smart and green communications and networks.
This workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to design of smart and green communications and networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Downlink and uplink PHY/MAC design for energy efficient networks
* Metrics, fundamental limits, and trade-offs involving energy efficiency
* Energy efficiency of different network deployment strategies
* Energy-efficient base station architectures and networking
* Energy-efficiency in home and enterprise networking
* Interference analysis, alignment, avoidance, and coordination
* Green back-haul networks
* Green cognitive communications and networks
* Power control and power saving mechanisms
* Small cell networks
* Cooperative radio communications for green and smart environments
* Information theory on energy efficiency
* Self organizing networks and issues in self maintenance and self install
* Energy efficient circuit and system design
* Resource allocation techniques
* Domestic Energy Management
* Interaction of wireless networks with smart grids and power management
* Test-bed, experimental results, and hardware prototypes
* Regulation and standardization
* Application of green communications and networks
Feature keynote addresses by Dr. Chih-Lin I (CMCC Green Innovation Center), Prof. Rod Tucker (The University of Melbourne), and Prof. Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University).
Panel discussion chaired by Dr. Shugong Xu (Huawei).
[Important Dates]
* Paper Submission: May 14, 2012
* Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2012
* Camera Ready Submission: July 30, 2012
* Workshop: August 15, 2012
[Submission Guidelines]
The workshop accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 5-page standard IEEE conference style paper to this workshop (including all text, figures, and references) through EDAS submission system (http://www.edas.info/N12395). One additional page may be allowed but with additional publication fee.
[Publications]
Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. The presenter must register for the workshop before the deadline for author registration. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. All papers selected for publication will be included in the IEEE ICCC proceedings and IEEE digital library.