Call for papers
In the past years the energy
efficiency of communication networks has been the focus
of extensive research. This is due to the fact that the
power consumption of communication networks has grown to
become a critical issue, being that the Information and
Communication Technology sector accounts for up to 7% of
the entire electricity production. Additionally, user
traffic is expected to notably increase in the future,
due to the increase of the number of subscribers as well
as the continued expansion of bandwidth-hungry services.
In this context, different green approaches have been
proposed in order to reduce the energy consumption of
both wired and wireless networks, at all layers, and in
all network segments (i.e., access, metro/aggregation,
and core).
Although the benefits in terms of energy saving are
clear, the implications of introducing energy-aware
techniques and installing energy-aware devices are still
at an early stage. More in depth, it is of particular
importance to understand the sustainability of
energy-aware networks, focusing on the costs derived
from energy-aware networks as well as on the possibility
to exploit renewable sources to power the communication
devices. As a second issue, the investigation of
energy-aware solutions in terms of implementation
aspects is a mandatory step. In this context, solutions
considering testbed implementation and evaluation of
energy-aware networks are of central importance. These
solutions may also integrate state-of-the-art paradigms
like Software Defined Networking (SDN), 5G technology,
and Elastic Optical Networks (EONs). Finally,
energy-aware networking should also consider the impact
on reliability. In particular, we call for solutions
considering energy-aware resilient networks as well as
studies of the impact of the energy-aware policies on
the failure rate of networking equipment.
The workshop is open to submissions covering
sustainable, implementable, and/or resilient energy-
aware solutions. We expect contributions covering these
aspects in access, metro, backbone and datacenter
networks. The range of topics addressed by this workshop
is wide, including, but not limited to:
- Sustainable backbone networks
- Sustainable cellular networks (3G-4G-5G)
- Sustainable datacenter networks
- Cost analysis of green networks
- Backbone/cellular/datacenter networks powered by
renewable sources
- Software Defined Networking (SDN) energy-aware
- Energy-aware Elastic Optical Networks (EONs)
- Testbed implementation of energy-aware
backbone/cellular/datacenter networks
- Measurement of energy-consumption in green
networks
- Energy-aware protocols
- Standardization techniques for energy-aware
networks
- Energy-aware emulation of communication networks
- Energy-aware resilient networks
- Energy and failure tradeoffs in
backbone/cellular/datacenter networks
- Failure modeling in energy-aware networks
- Failure measurements in energy-aware networks
- Energy- and resilient-aware algorithms in
communication networks
- Lifetime-aware backbone/cellular/datacenter
networks
- Monetary energy savings vs. equipment costs
analysis
- Smart grid communication networks
- Interoperation between electrical networks and
communication networks
SUBMIT
Submission guidelines
It is required that the manuscript follows the
standard IEEE camera-ready format (double column,
10-pt font) as well as the requirement set by EDAS
paper submission system. The maximum length of ICNC
paper without over-length charge is FIVE (5) page. The
authors are allowed to pay for up to TWO (2)
additional pages at $150 per over length page.
Submitted papers may not have been previously
published in or under consideration for publication in
another journal of conference. The organizing
committee of ICNC reserves the right to not review
papers that either exceed the length specification or
have been submitted or published elsewhere.
Submissions must include title, abstract, keywords,
author and affiliation with email address.
During the initial paper submission process via EDAS,
the authors are required to make sure the pdf file and
EDAS registration page of a paper have the same list
of authors and the paper title. Be certain to add all
authors in EDAS during the initial paper submission
process.
Failure to comply with this rule may cause a paper be
withdrawn from the review process. Once reviewed the
listing of authors connected to the paper can NOT be
changed in the final manuscript.
All accepted papers of ICNC (main program and
workshops), after being presented onsite at the
conference, will be included in the proceedings to be
submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore and indexing
by EI Compendex.
