GCNC 2019 - Green Computing, Networking & Communications (GCNC)  

Green computing has been one of the important topics of research in recent years due to its potential
economic and environmental impact. Recent studies have shown that ICT and computing resources
account for 2% -- 10% of the world’s power consumption, and is quickly growing due to the everincreasing
proliferation of electronic devices.
To reduce the carbon-footprint and improve the environmental sustainability, novel paradigms,
methods, techniques, and systems are needed to develop green computing and communication
technologies, with focus on high-energy efficiency, lowering the dependence on energy sources that
lead to greenhouse gas emissions, better re-use of resources and materials, and the use of renewable
energy resources.
The ICNC Green Computing, Networking, and Communications Symposium aims at bringing together
researchers and visionaries from academia, research laboratories, and industries working towards the
ultimate goal of green ICT. To this end, this symposium solicits original theoretical, experimental, and
design approaches that can cope with this paradigm shift towards green computing. The symposium
also solicits the application of computing, communications, and networking technologies towards the
development of sustainable energy systems that may include modernization of the electric power grid
and the integration of distributed energy resources. Topics of particular interest include, but are not
limited to the following.
● Green computing models, simulations, designs, and paradigms
● Green ICT operation with renewable energy
● Green materials and devices
● Green high-performance computing and applications
● Cross-layer optimization of green networking infrastructures
● Energy-aware software-defined network
● Energy-aware algorithms and protocols
● Energy harvesting based communications, computing, and control
● Ambient energy harvesting, models, prediction, storage, and recycling
● Energy-efficient networking and computing infrastructures
● Energy-efficient multimedia systems
● Energy-efficient data center and cloud technologies
● Life-cycle analysis of communication and computing equipment, especially with energy
harvesting
● Climate and ecosystem monitoring
● Integration of distributed energy resources and EVs utilizing ICT
● Design, analysis, and realization of smart grid
● Applications of energy efficient systems such as green Body Area Networks
● Implementations, test-beds and experimental results for green communications and computing
● Quality-of-service provisioning in green ICT