E2Nets 2014 - The 5th Workshop on Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks & Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency (E2Nets'14)

The 5th Workshop on Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks
& Wireless Networks for Energy Efficiency (E2Nets'14)
In conjunction with IEEE Intl. Conference on Communications (ICC'14)
Sydney, Australia, June 14, 2014.
http://e2nets.org/
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Technical sponsorship by IEEE TSCGCC and IEEE TCCN
and by iCore and ProFun projects
Important Dates
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Paper Submission Deadline: December 31, 2013 (Extended)
Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2014
Camera-Ready Submission: March 15, 2014
Accepted and presented papers will appear in the IEEE ICC workshop proceedings and IEEE Xplore. Submissions to be handled by EDAS at this link: http://edas.info/N16359
Scope
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With ICT technologies, such as wireless networking, the Internet of
Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), Machine-to-Machine
Communications (M2M), and cognitive networking, we have the opportunity
to detect, prevent, and automate solutions for energy efficiency as
well as creating a more sustainable society. However, for this to be a
viable option, also the ICT technologies must be energy efficient.
Instead of looking at these two problems in silo, we believe in a venue
for researchers and practitioners in both these fields to come together
and interact. This workshop aims to build this cooperation.
Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks: According to the 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 and
context can lead to significant energy savings. Novel networking
paradigms need to be introduced to assure that all components are used
with maximum utilization. Green 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 quality/grade of
service required by the applications. Along with energy efficiency,
spectrum utilization is to be optimized and radiation is to be
minimized.
Topics
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In this workshop, the following topics of energy efficiency in wireless
networks are considered:
* Energy efficient Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities
* Energy efficient wireless sensor networks and their applications
* Energy efficient ad hoc network services
* Energy efficient algorithms/protocols and their implementations
* Energy efficient service discovery and service provisioning
* Cognitive techniques to control networking energy efficiency
* Optimization of energy efficient networking
* Physical layer techniques, channel/network coding for energy
efficiency
* Methodologies/architectures for energy efficiency
* Energy-efficiency measures
* Energy-efficient flooding/multicasting
* Collaborative/cooperative/cognitive networking protocols for energy
efficiency
* Algorithms for energy efficient scheduling and resource management
* Energy harvesting techniques and strategies
* 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
To address the other 98% of the global CHG emissions, this workshop
considers the following topics on wireless networks for energy
efficiency:
* 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
* Internet of Things (IoT) for making energy efficient systems
* Vehicular networks to reduce the CHG emissions
* ICT systems for a sustainable and green world
* New designs of equipments/architectures for energy efficiency
* Energy efficient virtualization of resources
* Energy efficient radio resource management
* Energy efficient smart homes and energy monitoring
* Applications in smart grids and smart and sustainable cities
* Optimization of smart, homes, cities, societies, and networks
Tentative Committees
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General Chair
* Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
General Co-Chairs
* R. Venkatesha Prasad, TU Delft, The Netherlands
* Abdur Rahim, CREATE-NET, Italy.
Publicity Chair
* Jinsong Wu, Bell Laboratories, Shanghai, China
TPC Chairs
* Martin Jacobsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
* Kandeepan Sithamparanathan, RMIT, Australia
TPC Committee
* Ozgur Akan, Koc University, Turkey
* Mário Alves, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
* Xueli An, DOCOMO, Germany
* Joan Bas, CTTC, Spain
* Abel Bravo Vicente, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
* Lin Chen, University of Paris-Sud 11, France
* Guido Dolmans, Holst Centre / IMEC, The Netherlands
* Lingjie Duan, SUTD, Singapore
* Carlo Fischione, KTH, Sweden
* Christian Haas, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
* K.V.S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, India
* Frank den Hartog, TNO, The Netherlands
* Mohammad Hassan, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
* Gaoning He, Huawei Technologies, China
* Sonia Heemstra de Groot, TU/e, The Netherlands
* Ghassan Karame, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
* Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK
* Chyrsa Papagianni, NTUA, Greece
* TV Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Science, India
* Vijay Sathyanarayana Rao, TU Delft, The Netherlands
* Laurent Reynaud, Orange Labs, France
* Zhefu Shi, Microsoft, USA
* Akshay Uttama Nambi, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Further Information
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For further information, please visit our website:
http://e2nets.org/
Submissions are handled through EDAS:
http://edas.info/N16359.