E2Nets 2013 - IEEE Workshop on Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks & Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency (E2Nets)

The two seemingly distinct topics of E2Nets are very important for overall energy efficiency in the future. Instead of looking at them separately, it is useful to arrange a venue for the researchers and practitioners in these two fields to come together and interact. This workshop aims to build this cooperation.
Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks: According to a GESI study, the ICT sector contributes around 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. To increase the competitiveness, energy efficiency (E2) must also be a design criterion of the network and service architectures. Flexible networks that adapt their capacity to the requirements can lead to significant energy savings. Novel networking paradigms need to be introduced to assure that all components are used with maximum utilization. E2 network architectures will be the cross-layer, cognitive and cooperative aggregation of techniques and mechanisms to provide a communication infrastructure where the energy consumption is minimized while guaranteeing the grade of service required by the applications. Along with energy efficiency, spectrum utilization is to be optimized and radiation is to be minimized.
In this workshop, the following topics of energy efficiency in wireless networks are considered:
Physical layer techniques, channel/network coding for energy efficiency
Methodologies /architectures for energy efficiency
Energy-efficiency measures
Energy-efficient flooding/multicast
Collaborative/cooperative/cognitive networking protocols for energy efficiency
Algorithms for energy efficient scheduling and resource management
Energy harvesting
Cooperative green communications for energy efficiency
User mobility modeling to predict and adapt to patterns to reduce energy expenditure
Hybrid fiber-wireless networks for energy-efficient delivery of wireless signals
Energy efficient ad hoc network services
Energy efficient wireless sensor networks and their applications
Energy efficient Service discovery and Service Provisioning
Energy efficient algorithms and implementations in Internet of Things and Future Internet
Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency: To address the other 98 per cent of the global CHG emissions, wireless networks can be used to reduce the energy consumption of industrial/home/office environments/applications. For example, along with the research in low-carbon road transportation technologies, wireless networks can be employed to analyze the traffic jams and help navigators to find a suitable route leading energy savings. To this extent, in this workshop the topics of wireless networks for energy efficiency consist of:
ICT for minimization of the energy consumption of other systems, including transportation, houses, buildings, industrial processes, and smart cities.
Energy efficient cloud computing, smart grids and emerging applications,
Sensor networks for energy efficiency in industrial/harsh environments
Vehicular networks to reduce the CHG emissions
New designs of equipments/architectures for energy efficiency
Energy efficient virtualization of resources
Energy efficient radio resource management
Energy efficient home automation and energy monitoring
Applications to Smart grids