GreenNets 2012

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=============================================================== 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networking - GreeNets 2012 24th and 26th October 2012 Gandia, Spain http://greenets.org/

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HIGHLIGHTS

- The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation (www.eai.eu), a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT - All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries - Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more

CALL FOR PAPERS

[Scope]

Global warming and climate change have been a growing worldwide concern. Six sources, i.e., transportation, power, buildings, industry, agriculture and forestry, and land use, have been identified as major contributors to the rise of global carbon dioxide (CO2). The mobile industry is seen as a potential enabler to reduce greenhouse gases contributed by these six sources provided that appropriate measures are implemented. On the other hand, the mobile industry itself will also contribute to CO2 emission through network operations, mobile equipments, etc. To meet the requirement of low-carbon economy development, it is necessary to reduce the operation expenditure or energy consumption of mobile networks, while maintaining acceptable quality of service. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of designing, building, and deploying GreeNets. In this regard, the conference aims to establish a forum to bring together research professionals from diverse fields including green mobile networks, system architectures, networking & communication protocols, applications, test-bed and prototype, traffic balance and energy-efficient cooperation transmission, system and application issues related to GreeNets.

[Topics]

The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Communications and Networking: Communication techniques and protocols for GreeNets Energy-efficient transmission technologies based on the cooperation communication Scalable and flexible energy efficiency mobile network architectures, deployments, and applications

- Energy-efficient network architecture & protocols: Scalability and mobility issues in energy efficiency cross-layer design MAC Protocols and QoS Designing for mobile networks

- Systems and Technology: Transactions and workflows in green mobile networks Adaptability and stability of green mobile networks Mobile and multimedia supported green mobile networks Experimental and test bed studies for energy efficiency mobile networks, simulation tools

- Energy-efficient management: Energy-efficient traffic balance, cooperation and management Distributed energy efficiency resource management techniques Protocols for cooperative management and control

[Publications]

Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNICST series and will appear in the SpringerLink, one of the largest digital libraries online that covers a variety of scientific disciplines, as well as in the ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

LNICST volumes are submitted for inclusion to leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus.

[Paper submission]

All the papers formatted according with the instructions have to be submitted through the conference online system at: http://greenets.org/submission.shtml

[Important dates] Abstract Submission Deadline: May 1, 2012 Full Paper Deadline: May 10, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: June 11, 2012 Camera-ready: July 16, 2012 Conference dates: 24th - 26th October 2012 [Conference organising committees]

General Co-Chairs: Jaime Lloret, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Joel Rodrigues, Institute of Telecommunications, University of Beira Interior, Portugal TPC Co-Chairs: Liang Zhou, Nanjing University of Posts and Telcommunications, China Eduardo Nakamura, Federal Univ. of Amazonas, Brazil

Industry Track Chair: Jose Maria Alcaraz Calero, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK

Workshop Chair: Javier Aguiar, University of Valladolid, Spain

Special Session Chair: Jose Soler, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark

Panel Chair: A.v. Senthil Kumar, HINDUSTHAN College of Arts & Science, India

Posters Chair: Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Local Co-Chairs: Diana Bri, Universidad Politecncia de Valencia, Spain Miguel Garcia, Universidad Politecncia de Valencia, Spain

Publicity Chairs: Sandra Sendra, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Min Chen, Seoul National University, Korea

Web Chair: Alejandro Canovas, Universidad Politecncia de Valencia, Spain

Steering Committee: Athanasios Vasilakos, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece Imrich Chlamtac, Creat-Net, Italy