[agents] CFP STEMCOM 2016, Guildford, UK - March 21-24, 2016

[Jaime Lloret Mauri]

Call for Papers
First EAI International Conference on Systems and Technology for Energy Management in Communication Networks

March 21-24, 2016
Guildford, UK
www.stemcom.org 

The debut edition of International Conference on Systems and Technology for Energy Management in Communication Networks is an international forum on theory, design, analysis, implementation/practices related to energy efficiency and energy management in 5G communication systems. Stemcom 2016 will be held in University of Surrey - home of the 5G Innovation Centre, Guildford, UK, between the 28th and 31st of March, 2016. Stemcom 2016 is organized in cooperation with the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI).

Stemcom 2016 invites you to submit technical research and position papers in following two categories (i) Applied research papers and (ii) Industrial practice papers. Stemcom 2016 also invites you to submit demo, special session and tutorial proposals to this event. Specifically, the conference is soliciting original research articles contributions that cover the following topics (but are not limited to):

Track 1: Energy Management Approaches in:
"	Networks for  Smart Cities
"	Heterogeneous networks
"	Emergency communications
"	Wearable devices and WBANs
"	Smart Grid communications
"	Bio-inspired communications
"	M2M or MTC
"	Vehicular  and High-speed train networks
"	Data centers
Track 2: Energy Management Tools and techniques in communication systems:
"	Energy Harvesting
"	Internet of Things
"	Self-organizing and self-learning
"	Energy transfer/trading
"	Software Defined/Virtualized Ecosystems
"	Network and Index Coding
"	Large scale reconfigurable antenna systems
"	D2D or device-centric mechanisms (decentralization)
"	Traffic offloading
"	Energy efficient Ultra dense networks
"	Cloud based systems
"	Network MIMO
"	Resource allocation
"	Cooperative Communications
"	Duplexing techniques for 5G (Full duplex/Dynamic TDD)
Track 3: Energy Management Practices in communication systems:
"	Communication systems Energy efficiency
"	Bound on system performance with energy constraints
"	Energy efficient systems and network architectures
"	Energy savings and consumptions mapping
"	Network architectures customised for remote/deprived areas with limited power grid access
"	The role of cloud radio access and fucntion virtualization on the energy efficiency
"	Carbon foot-prints of energy managed systems
"	Designing sustainable telecom infrastructure
"	Energy savings and consumption mapping
"	System-wide energy efficiency measures
"	Business and commercial case studies
"	Energy management policies and standardization
"	Green economics
Track 4: Selected Areas in Green Networking:
"	Big data for Green networks
"	Green Information and Content Centric Networking
"	Green Fog and Edge Networking
"	Energy Efficient Backhaul and Fronthaul Networks

Publications
Conference proceedings will be published with Springer, in the Lecture Notes of ICST. The proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Selected papers will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions.

Paper submission
Information about paper submissions (including guidelines) can be found under Author Instructions at http://stemcom.org/2016/show/authors-kit 

Important Dates:
Full Paper Submission deadline: 30 August 2015
Notification and Registration opens: 15 November 2015
Camera-ready deadline: 15 January 2016


Steering Committee:
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy (Chair)
Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA
Ali Sadri, Intel Corp., USA
John Thomson, University of Edinburgh, UK
Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, UK
Octavia Dobre, Memorial University, Canada
Wen Tong, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

General Chair:
Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Surrey, UK

General Co- Chair:
Mounir Ghogho, University of Leeds

Technical Program Chairs
Syed Ali Raza Zaidi, University of Leeds, UK
Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha
Mischa Dohler, King's College London, UK
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Publicity and Social Media Chair / Co-Chairs:
Jinsong Wu, Bell Laboratories, Shanghai, China
Muhammad Ismail, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
Jaime Lloret, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Deyun Gao, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Workshops Chair:
Kamel Tourki, Huawei, France
Linglong Dai, Tshingua University, China

Publications Chair:
Xianbin Wang (North America), University of Western Ontario, Canada
Shahid Mumtaz, Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro, Portugal

Panels Chair:
Maziar Nekovee, Samsung, UK
Valerio Frascolla, Intel Corp., Germany

Tutorials Chair:
Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu, Finland

Demos Chair:
Chen Tao, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland

Local Chair:
James Kelly, University of Surrey, UK
Chuan Foh, University of Surrey, UK

Web Chair
Kishor Chandra, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Sponsorship Chair
Des McLernon, University of Leeds, UK.

Technical Program Committee:

Track 1: Energy Management in emerging communication systems (EMEC) Chairs
Chair:
Ali Imran, Oklahoma University, USA
Co-Chairs:
Tinku Rasheed, CREATE-NET, Italy
Cicek Cavdar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Li X. Zhang, University of Leeds, UK

Track 2: Energy Management tools and techniques in communication systems (EMTC) Chairs:
Chair:
Richard Demo Souza, Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba - PR - Brazil
Co-Chairs:
Hirley Alves, University of Oulu, Finland
Hsiao-Chun Wu, Louisiana State University, USA
Zhingshan Zhang, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China

Track 3: Energy Management practices in communication systems (EMPC) Chairs:
Chair:
Keivan Navaie, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK
Co-Chairs:
Toktam Mahmodi, King's College London, UK
Rath Vannithamby, Intel Corp., USA
Mohammad Asad Rehman Chaudhry, University of Toronto, Canada

Track 4: Selected Areas in Green Networking:
Chair:
Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
Co-Chairs:
Lei Zhang, University of Surrey, UK
Ijaz Haider Naqvi, LUMS, Pakistan