Si-GC 2014 - Special Issue on Green Communications

One of the most urgent challenges of the 21st century is to investigate new technologies that can enable a transition towards a more sustainable society with a reduced carbon footprint. It is well understood that ICT is one of the keys to a future low-carbon and sustainable society. Communications technologies will be critical to achieving large-scale energy savings in all domains including communications, manufacturing, transportation, buildings, and electricity generation and distribution. In this context, there is a critical need for new ways of reducing energy consumption of communication systems if the current trajectory of traffic growth and supporting anywhere/anytime/anything access is to continue unabated. Energy costs are significant in a broad range of communications networks ranging from data center networks (where network equipment consume about 15% of the overall energy used) to cellular networks (where energy use of base stations amounts to around 70% of the total). The need for ‘greener’ communications technologies has been recognized by the research community as demonstrated by the significant research efforts in this area during the last years. However, many challenges still remain to be addressed.
The special issue of Computer Networks on Green Communications will focus on recent research results in the area of green communications. We seek papers describing research results that show significant energy savings in communications systems. We also seek survey and tutorial papers in green communications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Energy-efficient home, access, core, and data center networks
Energy-efficient wireless access, home and sensor networks
Energy-efficient cellular networks
Energy-efficient content distribution
Power-aware algorithms, protocols, network equipment, and applications
Software-defined networks for energy efficiency
Energy Management as a part of Network Management
Performance models and metrics for analyzing performance-energy trade-offs
Trade-offs in embodied versus use phase energy consumption
Trade-offs in thin client, cloud computing, and network energy use
Regulation and standardization
Guest Editors
Ken Christensen
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Email: christen-AT-csee.usf.edu
Xavier Costa Pérez
NEC R&D Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany
Email: Xavier.costa-AT-ieee.org
Pablo Serrano
University Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain
Email: pablo-AT-it.uc3m.es
Jinsong Wu
Bell Laboratories, China
Email: wujs-AT-ieee.org
Proposed Timeline
We envision the following timeline:
Paper Submission Due: February 28, 2014
First Round Notification: +3 months
Revised Paper Submission Due: +1 month
Second Round Notification: +1 month
Tentative Publication Date: 4th Quarter of 2014
Submission Requirements
Submitted articles must be clearly written in good English. Articles must be original, unpublished, and not currently under review. Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope for all submissions. All submissions deemed to be in-scope for this special issue, original, and clear in presentation will be sent out for peer review to three experts in the field and will be evaluated with respect to level of innovation, depth of contribution, and quality of presentation. It is very important that submitted papers must not be under consideration by other journals or publications.
Author guidelines can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computer-networks... for preparation of articles. The Elsevier Editorial System must be used for all manuscripts and any supplementary material. Select article type ‘Green Communications’ on submission. Manuscripts should not exceed 20 single-column pages and follow Elsevier’s preprint style format http://cdn.elsevier.com/assets/pdf_file/0011/10938....