EEWC 2016 - Special Session: Energy-Efficient Wireless Communications and Networking

As wireless networks have become an integral component of the modern communication infrastructure, energy efficiency has been become an important design consideration due to the limited battery life of mobile terminals. Recently energy efficient design of wireless networks has attracted a lot of attention and a wide range of topics are the target of extensive research work. Considerable research has been devoted to the low-power design of the entire network protocol stack of wireless networks in an effort to enhance energy efficiency. According to the GESI (Global E-Sustainability) study, the ICT sector contributes around 2% of global energy consumption. As part of the worldwide effort to reduce energy consumption, improving energy efficiency of telecommunication networks has received significant interest.Global energy consumption is currently one of the major concerns faced by governments worldwide, because of its significant environmental footprint and the eventual exhaustion of the major traditional energy sources.
This special session will focus on the following subjects of interest, as well as related issues:
Energy-efficient transmission systems
Signal processing techniques for energy-efficient transmission systems
Physical layer techniques, channel/network coding for energy efficiency
Methodologies /architectures for energy efficiency
Energy-efficiency in mobile and wireless access networks
Energy-efficiency in vehicular networks
Energy-efficiency in wireless sensor networks
Energy-efficient design for wireless e-health applications
Energy-efficient wireless network management
Cross-layer design for energy efficiency
Wireless networking for energy-efficient industrial automation
Energy-efficient MAC design
Energy-efficient flooding/multicast
Collaborative/cooperative/cognitive networking protocols for energy efficiency
Algorithms for energy efficient scheduling and resource management
Energy harvesting
Cognition and Cooperative communications for energy efficiency
User mobility modeling to predict and adapt to patterns to reduce energy expenditure
Design of Hybrid networks for energy-efficient delivery of wireless signals
Energy efficient ad hoc network services
Energy efficient Service discovery and Service Provisioning
Energy efficient algorithms and implementations in Internet of Things
Small cell networks for achieving energy efficiency
Test beds and experimental results related to energy efficient design