GASCoN 2011 - 2011 IEEE SECON Workshop on Green and Sustainable Communication Networks (GASCoN)

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IEEE SECON 2011 Workshop on Green And Sustainable Communication Networks (GASCoN)
This workshop invites papers on a broad range of topics that pertain to networks that are energy efficient, reusable, long-lived, and that enable other sustainability initiatives for our planet.
It has been estimated that information and communication technologies (ICT) account for about 600 billion kWh of electricity usage annually, about 400 million metric tons of CO2 emissions each year. Therefore, there is great emerging interest in the design of networks which are energy-efficient, reusable, and yield a lower carbon footprint. There are many other ways in which communication networks can be deployed to enable initiatives pertaining to environmental sustainability; for instance, networks can be deployed to monitor air pollution, or manage energy utilization of buildings. And in a different, but related notion of sustainability, some application require the deployment and management of networks that can be sustainably operated over long periods, such as networks for monitoring earthquakes and tsunamis.
We welcome papers on topics including but not limited to:
Sustainable Networking
Green network architectures and protocols
Energy-efficient network hardware
Novel queuing models with energy-oriented metrics
Energy-QoS tradeoffs in network planning and operation
Energy consumption profiling in networks
Network economics for incentivizing sustainable user behavior

Networks for Sustainability
Network infrastructure for smart energy use
Communication networks enabling renewable energy use
Networks deployed to monitor biodiversity, environmental quality, including underwater networks

Long-lived Networks
Networks utilizing energy harvesting
Long-lived and self-sustaining network deployments
Energy storage and transfer networks
Networks for monitoring earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters