Networking 2010 - First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Green Networking 2010

First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Green Networking
Understanding and reducing the energy consumption of computing and communication infrastructure in home, enterprise and data center environments is an area of increasing importance for both researchers and commercial entities. This is an interdisciplinary field by its very nature: advances in many areas such as computer architecture, operating systems and compilers are all needed to reduce the energy consumption. Many of the proposed ideas have a direct impact on how networks are designed and provisioned. The power consumption of network infrastructure has itself come under scrutiny. At the same time, we have begun to see networking technologies play a significant role in reducing energy consumption in other domains such as utility networks and transportation systems.

The First Green Networking workshop at SIGCOMM will focus on networking issues involved in designing green infrastructures in both computing and non-computing domains. We welcome papers that utilize networking technologies and principles to other domains besides traditional networking areas such as transit, energy that influence our daily life.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Power measurements and data from empirical studies of computer and communication infrastructure
Techniques for measuring or estimating power consumption of computer and communication infrastructure
Techniques for reducing power consumption in data center, enterprise and home environments
Power consumption of networking infrastructure
Protocol and middleware considerations for reducing power consumption
Hardware and architectural support for reducing power consumption
Green network design for high density data centers and cloud computing
Methods that focus on computing and communication systems as key components for reducing the power footprint in other environments such as smart grids and smart transportation systems
Application of networking technologies and principles for greening services and utilities affecting our daily life
Submissions
All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work as well as work-in-progress, so long as the promise of the approach is demonstrated. Radical ideas, potentially of a controversial nature, are strongly encouraged. Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length and must be a pdf file. Reviews will be single-blind: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission. Submissions must follow the other formatting guidelines here.

Committee
TPC Co-Chairs Paul Barford University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jitendra Padhye Microsoft Research

Sambit Sahu IBM Research
Important dates
Submissions due March 19, 2010
Notification May 14, 2010
Camera ready due May 28, 2010
Workshop held on August 30, 2010