GREEN 2014 - Track on Green Networks and Sustainable Computing (GREEN)

Recent years have witnessed increasing efforts towards designing greener networking infrastructure by improving energy efficiency of end-hosts, data centers, and the cloud operations. Indeed, on one side, communication networks and the Internet represent a source of pollution due to the high power demand, while on the other hand communications and networks provide an unprecedented tool to help solve the society's sustainability issues (e.g, enable distributed/remote monitoring or control such as in smart grid). This conference track is seeking novel contributions on hardware/software design, network architectures, protocols and algorithms that will lead to sustainable, reliable, and energy efficient networking infrastructure, as well as novel approaches that will improve the manageability, security, and reliability of ICT as it is applied to solve global sustainability challenges.
Track Topics
Energy efficient networking processor and hardware designs:
Power consumption trends and reduction for communications (wireless, wired, Internet, core, metro, access, home)
Energy efficient optimization for communications and computing
Energy aware networking
Energy efficient cloud computing
Energy aware algorithms and protocols
Energy minimization in core, metro, access and local area networks
Novel energy efficient communication technologies
Modeling and analysis for green communications and networking
Virtualization techniques for energy efficiency
Cognitive networks for energy efficiency
Networks for energy efficiency (smart grid)
Energy efficient scheduling and resource allocation
Modeling the environmental footprint of communications
Standards and regulations for energy efficiency in communications and networking
Experimental testbeds for green communications and computing
Scalability in communications networks:
Scalability of network protocols and architectures
Internet scalability
Modeling and analysis of scalability of communication networks
Scalability of grid, cloud and distributed computing
Scalable management of communication networks
Track Organizing Committee
Track Chairs:
Waltenegus Dargie, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Yi Qian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Track Technical Program Committee:
Kunjie Xu, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Jiazhen Zhou, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA
Xiaoping Li, Wright State University, USA
Yaoqing Yang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Wei Li, University of Victoria, Canada
Alexandre Guitton, Clermont University, France
Michael Schiffers, University of Munich, Germany
Juha Plosila, University of Turku, Finland
Alexander Schill, TU Dresden, Germany
Klaus Hoffman, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden, Germany
Lukas Kencl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic