growan 2011 - international Symposium on future wireless access networks with minimised environmental impact growan2011

We are pleased to announce that we will be organising an international Symposium on future wireless access networks with minimised environmental impact. This event will take place at Telecom Bretagne in Brest (France) on June 15-16-17, 2011.

A selection of international key speakers from both industry and academia will be invited to address Radio-over-Fibre and All-Optical wireless technologies with a focus on minimising overall energy consumption in wireless access networks.

This unique event will provide great networking opportunities to set up prospective collaborative projects at an international level.

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Motivation
The sheer convenience of wireless access ensures its popularity. One day, the first and last leg of every communications link will be wireless. These links will serve machines as well as humans, and must meet the ever increasing bandwidth demands of applications.

As a consequence, capacity use is growing faster than the energy efficiency of wireless networks leading to unsustainable growth in total electrical energy consumption. Since the majority of electrical energy will be generated from the burning of fossil fuels for some time into the future, wireless networks could become a major contributor to global green house gas (GHG) emissions.

Strategies to increase capacity whilst reducing the total energy consumption point towards high density antenna distribution systems fed by a fibre optic network; i.e. the radio-over-fibre paradigm.

Scope and Objectives
Research in "Green" wireless is still at an early stage. Wireless-over- fibre and all-optical solutions can already be considered green in offering reduced energy consumption relative to alternative wireless access solutions.

It is therefore not necessary that contributors consider their current research agenda as specifically green, only that they feel that their research may have merit in terms of further reductions in energy consumption. GROWAN2011 is intended to be a pathfinder event that draws together diverse ideas to identify promising new research directions and to create new collaborations in the field.

Since there is much detail to be worked out to optimise complete systems within a ‘green’ evaluation framework, GROWAN2011 will focus on new methods, architectures and technologies for sustainable wireless-over-fibre and all optical wireless access networks (please refer to the Call for Paper section for more information on topics to be addressed)