ICT 2016 - Second Workshop on Next Generation Green ICT

Reducing worldwide negative environmental impact and contributing to a more sustainable planet is urgent
both from an economical and environmental point of views. With Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) encompassing wireless networks, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS),
Broadband Access Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2M),
optical networks, 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 green. For instance, it is estimated that the broadband access networks will use
8% of globally generated power.
Instead of looking at these problems in silo, we believe in a venue for researchers and practitioners in these
fields to come together and interact. This workshop aims to build this cooperation.
Topics of Interest
The Second Workshop on Next Generation Green ICT seeks contributions in three different areas:
Green ICT: According to a GESI study, the ICT sector contributes around 2% of the global greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions. To increase the competitiveness, energy efficiency and sustainability 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. Green networking is not only the evolution of legacy networking paradigms but
also the revolution of the visionary hybrid networks which is the convergence of the heterogeneous wired,
wireless and ad hoc networks.
In this workshop, the following topics of green ICT are considered:
? Green Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber physical systems (CPS)
? Green wireless/wireline networks
? Green ad hoc and sensor networks and their applications
? Green algorithms/protocols and their implementations
? Green service discovery and service provisioning
? Standby/idle power management
? Green optical communications
? Energy harvesting, energy storage, energy transfer, and recycling
? Collaborative/cooperative/cognitive techniques to achieve green objectives
? Optimization of green networking and computing
? Green physical layer techniques
? Methodologies/architectures for green ICT
? Energy-efficient flooding/multicasting
? Environmentally friendly designs
? Energy and resource efficiency
? Algorithms for green scheduling and resource management
? User mobility modeling to predict and adapt to patterns to reduce energy expenditure
? Hybrid fiber-wireless networks for green delivery of wireless signals
Green Broadband Access: One of the biggest challenges that the network access segment is facing is how to
meet future requirements and expectations in an affordable and sustainable way. Low energy consumption is
the key to achieve this. Already today, the operator's energy bill is an increasing part of the operational
expenditure, and with the future requirements and expectations there is a clear risk that this may increase even
further if nothing is done. This will be achieved by bringing together experts from both academia and industry in
the forefront of the energy efficient broadband access field, i.e., energy efficient cellular design, rechargeable
energy harvesting wireless networks, energy efficient Passive Optical Network (PON) solutions, and green
backhaul/fronthaul strategies specifically tailored for converged wired-wireless scenarios. The range of topics
addressed by this area is wide, including, but not limited to:
? Energy efficient and green massive MIMO
? Femtocell and small cell networks
? Multi-tier interference management and energy efficiency
? Base station energy consumption and optimization
? Energy and message cooperation
? Transmission policies for energy harvesting nodes
? Receiver side energy issues
? Green backhauling strategies and architectures
? Green cloud RAN solutions
? Energy efficient wireless access deployment strategies
? Cooperative and collaborative networking solutions in wireless broadband access
? Techno-economic assessment of green broadband solutions
? Quality of service aware energy efficient algorithms
? Green DSL access solutions
? Node consolidation and active equipment elimination
? Load adaptive fixed and wireless networks
? Energy efficient point-to-point access solutions
? Green 5G machine-machine type communication networks
ICTs for a sustainable society: To address the other 98 per cent of the global GHG emissions, ICTs can be
used to increase sustainability, reduce the energy consumption and emissions in the other sectors, such as
industrial/home/office environments/applications. In this workshop, we consider many wide topics of ICT usage
for a sustainable society. They may include, but not limited, to the following examples:
? Green ICT for minimization of the environmental impact from other systems, including transportation,
houses, buildings, industrial processes, and smart cities
? Environmental protection and monitoring
? Green 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 GHG emissions
? New green designs of equipment/architectures
? Green virtualization of resources
? Smart green homes and energy/resource monitoring
? Applications in smart grids and smart and sustainable cities
? Optimization of smart, homes, cities, societies, and networks