Green networking 2010
Architecture, protocols and algorithms for a sustainable Internet
Call for Papers
It is now held as a scientific fact that humans contribute to the
global warming of planet Earth through the release of carbon dioxide (CO2), a
Green House Gas (GHG), in the atmosphere. It is estimated that 2-3% of the CO2
produced by human activity comes from ICT and a number of studies estimate the
energy consumption related to ICT varying from 2% to 10% of the worldwide power
consumption.
The reduction and optimization of energy consumption are among the main goals of
the governments. The European Union in fact is encouraging the ICT sector to
reduce its carbon footprint in a drive to drastically reduce Europe's overall
carbon emissions by 2020 setting its ambitious 20/20/20 goals: cut its annual
consumption of primary energy by 20%, increase the production of renewable
energy to a share of 20% by 2020 and make efficiency savings of 20% over
forecast consumption. Recent initiatives gathering major IT companies started to
explore the energy savings and green energy use in network infrastructure. But
the Internet traffic is growing constantly over the years (independent of the
momentary economic conditions) impacting directly the network energy consumption
which is in fact growing at the same degree. It is clear that increased energy
consumption of the Internet will increase operational costs in the network and
will exacerbate the thermal issues associated with large data centers and
switching nodes. It is safe to say that a paradigm shift is required in the
network in order to sustain the growing traffic rates while limiting and even
decreasing the power consumption. To become a reality, green Internet must rely
on a major cooperation between application, system, network, link and physical
levels.
This Workshop aims at providing a comprehensive view of research challenges and
opportunities in the coming green era and will include both invited talks and
contributed papers. Topics include but not limited to the following:
- Energy-efficiency in wireless and wired access networks
- Energy-aware routing algorithms
- Energy-aware control plane protocols
- Energy-aware radio resource management techniques
- Energy-aware spectrum management
- Novel network concepts and architectures lowering energy consumption
- Energy-aware design for network equipments
Authors are invited to submit full papers only in PDF format of
up to 8 pages in two-column, no less than 10pt font, conference proceedings
format to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. For
paper formatting instructions, please visit the Broadnets conference website:
https://broadnets.org/2010/
At least one of the authors is required to register as well as to attend and
present the paper. Only in special circumstances, permission may be obtained
from the TPC chairs for substituting with a non-author speaker. If a paper is
not presented at the conference, then it will be deleted from the proceedings.
Technical Program Committee
Chairs
Jad Nasreddine, RWTH, Germany
Davide Careglio, UPC, Spain
Georges Da Costa, IRIT, France
TPC Chair
Siamak Azodolmolky, AIT, Greece
TPC
F. Adelantado, UOC, Spain
M. Angelou, AIT, Greece
I. Al Khatib, KTH, Sweden
L. Budzisz, NUIM, Ireland
D. Colle, IBBT, Belgium
C. El Zammar, Averna Tech., Canada
S. Elayoubi, France Telecom, France
E. Escalona, U. Essex, U.K.
W. Fawaz, LAU, Lebanon
S. Figuerola, i2cat, Spain
L. Giupponi, CTTC, Spain
M. Klinkowski, NIT, Poland
V. Kolar, Carnegie Mellon U., Qatar
S. Lahoud, U. Rennes I, France
X. Li, RWTH, Germany
J. Majkowski, Nokia, Finland
T. Rasheed, CreateNet, Italy
G. Santos Boada, UPC, Spain
J. Sol�-Pareta, UPC, Spain
K. Sithamparanathan, CreateNet, Italy
C. Vijaya Saradhi, CreateNet, Italy
Important Dates
Submission: June 30
Notification: July 31
Camera ready: Sept. 1
Registration: Sept. 1