IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on
Green Communications, Computing, and Systems
Co-leading guest editors:
· Jinsong Wu, Bell Laboratories, China
· Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK,
Other guest editors:
· Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
· Raffaele Bolla, University of Genoa, Italy,
· Richard Watson, University of Georgia, USA
· Athanassios Manikas, Imperial College London, UK
Justification:
The recent rapid growth in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industries has made significant impact on the global environment from both positive and negative perspectives. The negative outcomes have encouraged technologists, developers, and researchers to develop and market green communications, computing and systems to reduce environmental damage and support sustainable human society development. Green ICT activities may require inter-disciplinary research, global collaboration, and extensive social awareness, which are relevant to not only technological issues but also social and economic issues. This special issue aims to address the environmental impact of the development of ICT industries, discuss the importance and benefits of achieving Green ICT and introduce the efforts and challenges in Green ICT. This special issue will emphasize the system level issues of Green ICT
.
The main distinguishing features of this special issue from other existing and previous special issues in the literature are as follows:
1. To cover many relevant topics, which may include
a) Understandings, concepts, principles, mechanisms, design, algorithms, analyses, and research challenges of green communications, computing and systems at the fundamental and practical levels;
b) Research, development, standardization, and service community of energy- and/or resource- efficient and/or environment-maintainable communications, computing, and systems;
c) The cross-disciplinary topics relevant to green ICT, such as green smart grids, green electronics, and social and economic aspects of ICT, ICT impact on general environments and the creation of sustainable world.
2. To focus on joint green communications, computing and systems issues, this special issue will be supported by the IEEE Comsoc Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC), the pan IEEE Societies Green ICT Initiative and the IEEE Comsoc Transmission, Access and Optical Systems Technical Committee (TAOS).
Content of Special Issue:
In this special issue, we will solicit not only original research results but also survey and/or tutorial articles that discuss
· Energy efficiency;
· Resource efficiency;
· Sustainability, environmental protections for ICT;
· Non-energy green topics;
· System level issues;
· Relevant electricity distribution systems or using ICT to achieve green goals;
· Social awareness of the importance of sustainable and green communications and computing;
· Understandings, concepts, principles, mechanisms, design, algorithms, analyses, and research challenges in Green Communications, Computing and Systems;
The authors may present and discuss a number of the 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;
• System issues of green ICT;
• Relevant algorithms, protocols, approaches, and strategies;
• Characterization, metrics, and performance of green communications, computing, and systems;
• 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;
• 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;
Proposed Schedule:
Paper Submission Deadline, September 1, 2014
Feedback to Authors: December 1, 2014
Submission of Revised Manuscript: January 1, 2015
Final Decision: February 1, 2015
The publishing plan would depend on the number of submissions. If the number of submissions is large, we may partition the accepted papers into several issues as a series.
Biographies and Contact Information of Guest Editors
Jinsong Wu
Jinsong Wu is the Founder and Founding Chair of Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TSCGCC), IEEE Communications Society, which was officially approved in December 2011. He is the leading Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topics Issue on Context-Aware Networking and Communications. He is the Vice-Chair of Track on Green Communication Systems and Networks and Symposium Chair in the Selected Areas in Communications Symposium, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012. He is Technical Program Committee Chair in the 2012/2013 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications. He is General Chair in 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications. He is General Chair in IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 International Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications. He is the Chair/Moderator of the Technical Panels on Green Communications and Computing in the IEEE INFOCOM 2012, ICC 2012, and Globecom 2012. He is the leading Editor of the comprehensive CRC Press book published in September 2012, entitled “Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Applications”. He obtained Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Since 2010, he has worked as Research Scientist in Bell Laboratories, Shanghai, China. He has held research and development the positions relevant to communications engineering in Nortel Networks Canada, Philips Research USA, and Sprint-Nextel USA. He is Associate Editor - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Associate Editor - IEEE Systems Journal, , Associate Editor – IEEE Access, Editor - KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, Area Editor - Journal of Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, Editor - Infocommunications Journal, Editor - International Journal of Big Data Intelligence,. He has served as technical program committee members in 42 leading international communications and computing relevant technical conferences, such as IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE,WCNC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE VTC, IEEE CloudCom, IEEE CCNC, IEEE CloudNet, IEEE ISCIT, iCOST, WAC, FutureTech, and so on. He currently is an IEEE Senior Member.
Contact information:
Jinsong Wu
Room 621, Bldg1,
399# Jinxiang Road, Pudong Jinqiao,
Shanghai 201206, P.R. China
Email: ,
Jaafar M.H. Elmirghani
Prof. Jaafar Elmirghani is a Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Senior Member of the IEEE and is the Director of the Institute of Integrated Information Systems and Professor of Communication Networks and Systems within the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK. He joined Leeds in 2007 having been professor in optical communications at the University of Wales Swansea 2000-2007. He was Chairman of the IEEE UK and RI Communications Chapter and was Chairman of IEEE Comsoc Transmission Access and Optical Systems Committee and Chairman of IEEE Comsoc Signal Processing and Communication Electronics (SPCE) Committee. He was a member of IEEE ComSoc Technical Activities Council’ (TAC), an editor of IEEE Communications Magazine and is and has been on the technical program committee of 31 IEEEICC/GLOBECOM conferences between 1995 and 2013 including 13 times as Symposium Chair / Track Chair. He was founding Chair of the Advanced Signal Processing for Communication Symposium which started at IEEE GLOBECOM’99 and has continued since at every ICC and GLOBECOM. Prof. Elmirghani was also founding Chair of the first IEEE ICC/GLOBECOM optical symposium at GLOBECOM’00, the Future Photonic Network Technologies, Architectures and Protocols Symposium. He chaired this Symposium, which continues to date. He is Chair of the IEEE Green ICT committee within the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) Future Directions Committee (FDC), a pan IEEE Societies committee responsible for Green ICT activities in IEEE, 2012-2015. He is founding Chairman of GLOBECOM’11 Selected Areas in Communications, Green Communication Systems and Networks (GCSN) track. The track took / is taking place at GLOBECOM’12, ICC’13 and ICC’14. He received the IEEE Communications Society 2005 Hal Sobol award for exemplary service to meetings and conferences, the IEEE Communications Society 2005 Chapter Achievement award, the University of Wales Swansea inaugural ‘Outstanding Research Achievement Award’, 2006, the IEEE Communications Society Signal Processing and Communication Electronics outstanding service award, 2009, and IEEE ICC’13 best paper award. He is currently an editor of IET Optoelectronics, editor of Journal of Optical Communications, Co-Chair of the GreenTouch® Core Switching and Routing Working Group, an adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, member of the Royal Society International Joint Projects Panel and member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) College. He has been awarded in excess of £20 million in grants to date from EPSRC, the EU and industry and has held prestigious fellowships funded by the Royal Society and by BT. He has published over 375 technical papers, co-edited “Photonic Switching Technology- Systems and Networks”, IEEE Press 1998, leads a number of research projects and has research interests in communication networks, wireless and optical communication systems; see http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~eenjmhe for more details. He is an IEEE Comsoc Distinguished Lecturer, 2013-2014.
Contact Information:
Chair in Communication Networks and Systems
School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering,
University of Leeds,
LS2 9JT, UK.
E-mail:
Mounir Hamdi
Mounir Hamdi is the Dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Bedore joining HBKU, he was a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to design and analysis of high-speed packet switching.
He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering - Computer Engineering minor (with distinction) from the University of Louisiana in 1985, and the MS and the PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987 and 1991, respectively.
He was a founding member of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He held visiting professor positions at Stanford University, USA, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. His general area of research is in high-speed wired/wireless networking in which he has published more than 300 research publications, received numerous research grants, and graduated more 30 graduate students. In addition, he has frequently consulted for companies and governmental organizations in the USA, Europe and Asia. He is a frequent keynote speaker in International Conferences and Forums.
Prof. Hamdi is/was on the Editorial Board of various prestigious journals and magazines including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communication Magazine, Computer Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and Parallel Computing as well as a guest editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, and Optical Networks Magazine. He has chaired more than 20 international conferences and workshops, and has been on the program committees of more than 200 international conferences and workshops. He was the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Transmissions, Access and Optical Systems, and Vice-Chair of the Optical Networking Technical Committee, as well as member of the ComSoc technical activities council. He received the best paper award at the IEEE Globecom 2012, IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2009 and the IEEE International Conference on Information and Networking in 1998.
In addition to his commitment to research and professional service, he is also a dedicated teacher and renowned quality-assurance educator. He received the best 10 lecturers award (through university-wide student voting for all university faculty held once a year), the distinguished engineering teaching appreciation award from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and various grants targeted towards the improvement of teaching methodologies, delivery and technology.
Contact Information:
Head of Department and Chair Professor
Department Computer Science and Engineering
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Email:
Raffaele Bolla
Raffaele Bolla received the "Laurea" degree in Electronic Engineering in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications in 1994 from the University of Genoa. He is currently Full Professor at the Department of Department of Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications Engineering and Maritime Architecture (DITEN) at the University of Genoa.
He is currently leading the Telecommunication Networks and Telematics Laboratory (TNT-LAB) at DITEN, and he is the person in charge of the International relations of the Polytechnic School at the University of Genoa. He has been Principal Investigator for the University of Genoa and CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications) in a large number of research projects and contracts with both public Institutions and private companies. Among the most recent and relevant activities are the coordination of ECONET (low Energy COnsumption NETworks), a European FP7 Integrated Project (with a cost of about 10 million Euro), the CNIT Research Unit coordination in the Network of Excellence (NoE) TREND (Towards Real energy-efficient Network Design). He has relevant activities in standardization especially for what concerns the general theme of ICT energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Prof. Bolla is the rapporteur of the ETSI Working Item 0030 that has produced the recently approved ETSI Standard ES 203-237 Green Abstraction Layer. Moreover, he is coordinating (for the ITU-T and GeSi - Global e-Sustainability Initiative) the realization of a Green ICT Standards Landscape and he is part of working group for the BroadBand Code of Conduct by supporting the European Community in the process of defining the new target values for the energy consumption of the network devices in the next 2-4 years. He was a component of the ETSI Specialist Task Force (STF) 439 that has produced two ETSI standards ES 205 200-1 and ETSI ES 205 200-2) Energy management - Global KPIs. He is the main author of the study entitled “Universal Power Supply Study” developed for the ITU-T Study Group 5 with the support of GeSi and he has been the PI and main author of the study entitled “Benchmarking on the current branded solutions for mobile chargers” for GeSi (the Global e-Sustainability Initiative). He has been acting as reviewer for many funded project proposals (both from industrial and academic sources) for the Italian and foreign ministries and public entities (regional and national organizations, research consortia,…); additionally, he has been a reviewer also for many different international journals and has participated in technical committees of numerous international conferences (IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE Infocom, Green Com, …). He received the IEEE best paper awards at IEEE Globecom 2010 (GreenCom10 Workshop) and at IEEE - ICC 2009.