[agents] Deadline for May 2015 ISSUE: Nov. 5, 2014 - CFP: IEEE Series on Green Communications and Computing Networks

[Jinsong Wu]

Call for Papers

IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on Green Communications, Computing, and Systems

Submission link: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-sj
Submission deadline: October 30, 2014
CFP link: http://www.ieeesystemsjournal.org/call-for-papers/special-issue-gccs/

Scope:

In this special issue, we solicit not only original research results but also survey and/or tutorial articles that discuss energy efficiency, resource efficiency, sustainability, environmental protection for ICT, relevant electricity distribution systems or using ICT to achieve green goals, social awareness of the importance of sustainable and green communications and computing, understanding, concepts, principles, mechanisms, design, algorithms, analyses, and research challenges of relevant topics. The authors may present and discuss a number of state-of-art technical approaches, bring broad and in-depth vision of the emerging areas in both industrial and academic perspectives. The submissions may address the relevant research trends, practical needs, open problems and possible solutions in green communications, computing and systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-    Fundamentals in green communications, computing, and systems
-    Relevant algorithms, protocols, approaches, and strategies
-    Characterization, metrics, and performance of green communications, computing, and systems
-    Key Performance Indexes (KPI) for ICT energy efficiency.
-    Standardization issues and activities for sustainable ICT
-    System issues of green ICT
-    Context-based green awareness
-    Cross-layer designs for green communications, computing, and systems
-    Non-energy relevant green issues, and/or approaches
-    Power-efficient cooling and air-conditioning systems for communications and computing
-    Energy saving on the terminals
-    Software Define Network and Network Function Virtualization techniques for green networking
-    Green virtualization techniques
-    Green software, hardware, device, and equipment
-    Green signal processing
-    Environmental monitoring
-    Electromagnetic pollution mitigation
-    Green data storage, data centers, contention distribution networks
-    Green communications under delay or quality of service constraints
-    Physical layer approaches
-    Green cognitive communications and computing
-    Green smart grids
-    Green Internet of Things
-    Green security strategies and designs
-    Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling
-    Relevant standardizations, policies and regulations
-    Green measurement, profiling, test-beds, and results
-    Use of communications and computing to support environmental sustainability
-    Green engineering, agenda, supply chains, logistics, and audit
-    Surveys on the relevant topics
-    Case studies of green systems and architecture
-    Energy-aware high performance computing
-    Green building, factory, office, and campus designs
-    Application layer issues
-    Green scheduling and/or resource allocation
-    Green services and operations
-    Renewable energy based algorithms, systems, and architecture
-    Approaches and issues of social networks used to achieve green behavior and objectives
-    End user Green behaviors and usage patterns
-    Economic and business impact and issues of green computing, communications, and systems
-    Cost, OPEX and CAPEX models for green computing, communications, and systems
-    Roadmap for sustainable ICT
-    Interdisciplinary green technologies and issues
-    Recycling and reuse
-    Prospects and impact on carbon emissions & climate policy


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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers should always address the above specific topics from the system perspective in order to be considered for this special issue.

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions by following the detailed instructions given in the "Information for Authors" at http://www.ieeesystemsjournal.org. In the cover letter, authors should explicitly state that the paper is submitted to the "Special Issue on Green Communications, Computing, and Systems". Questions about the special issue should be directed to the Guest Editors.

SCHEDULE
Paper submission deadline: October 30, 2014
Notification of the first review: January 30, 2015
Revised paper submission: February 28, 2015
Notification of the re-review: April 15, 2015
Minor revision deadline: May 15, 2015
Final notification: June 15, 2015
Final manuscript: July 15, 2015
Publication: by advance posting in IEEE xplore as soon as authors approve galley proofs
Expected printing: First half of 2016
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Guest Editors

Jinsong Wu, wujs at ieee.org
Jaafar Elmirghani,j.m.h.elmirghani at leeds.ac.uk
Mounir Hamdi, hamdi at cs.ust.hk
Raffaele Bolla, raffaele.bolla at unige.it
Richard Watson, rickwatson at mac.com
Athanassios Manikas, a.manikas at imperial.ac.uk