[RACI-list] CfP -- 2nd Int. Workshop on Green and Sustainable Networking (GreenNet 2023)

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On 19/12/2022 01:52, Hesham ElBakoury wrote:

> 
> *2nd Int. Workshop on Green and Sustainable Networking (GreenNet 2023)*
> 
> Co-located with IEEE ICC
> 
> 28. May - 01. June 2023
> 
> Rome, Italy
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> https://icc2023.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-07-2nd-workshop-green-and-sustainable-networking-greennet-2023
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> *Important Dates*
> 
> ==============
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> *Paper Submission Deadline: *January 20, 2023
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> *Acceptance Notification: *March 06, 2023
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> *Camera Ready: *March 15, 2023
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> *Registration for Accepted Papers: *March 15, 2023
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> *Workshop Date: *May 28 or June 01, 2023
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> EDAS submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30418
> 
> *Motivation*
> 
> ==========
> 
> Energy efficiency and sustainability have become of paramount importance 
> in all human activities. Regarding ICT, it has been long recognized that 
> its impact on helping reduce the carbon footprint of other activities 
> can be significant; then, it would be odd if the same principle would 
> not apply to ICT itself. In particular, computing, communications and 
> networking are relevant activities in this context, whose impact is 
> absolutely non-negligible. The concept of Green Computing and Networking 
> is currently gaining additional momentum with the growth in the number 
> of networked applications in all vertical sectors, in the number of 
> users and in the amount of traffic they generate. The pervasiveness of 
> mobile networks in 5G and their evolution toward 6G, the spreading of 
> edge computing and micro-data centers and the demand in computational 
> and data transport capacity across the edge-cloud continuum are all 
> factors that further contribute to making energy efficiency a 
> fundamental aspect of future networks.
> 
> **
> 
> *Goals*
> 
> ==========
> 
> The goal of the GreenNet Workshop is to address emerging concepts and 
> challenges related to energy efficiency and sustainability for networked 
> services, by pursuing sustainability in the context of ongoing 
> developments such as 5G and beyond, 6G, usage of AI/ML or distributed 
> ledger solutions and with different network access technologies. To this 
> aim, the Workshop will also address advanced traffic and power models, 
> as well as management and control strategies, along with Application 
> Programming Interfaces (APIs), to be used for the lifecycle management 
> and optimization of Physical and Virtual Network Functions, the creation 
> and dynamic reconfiguration of network slices, and the balance between 
> sustainability in terms of energy efficiency and performance. 
> Furthermore, the goal is to not only consider an energy efficient and 
> sustainable access network but complete network, monitoring, and 
> management solutions from data generation to data processing and further 
> usage The trade-off between availability, resiliency, programmability, 
> and energy efficiency is a key challenge. Monitoring methods and metrics 
> for power consumption, energy efficiency, as well as sustainability are 
> important, as well as benchmarking of solutions based on well-defined KPIs.
> 
> 
> We solicit original papers on the following (and related) topics
> 
> 
>     *Topics of Interest*
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> =================
> 
> Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in 
> English) in PDF format. Only original papers not published or submitted 
> for publication elsewhere will be considered for the workshop. Only PDF 
> files will be accepted for the review process and all manuscripts must 
> be electronically submitted through EDAS.
> 
> 
> ●   Traffic modeling and prediction for performance and power representation
> 
> ○ Analytical models of network power consumption
> 
> ○  Accuracy and granularity of traffic prediction models and BS/MS power 
> consumption models
> 
> ●. Management and control mechanisms for the dynamic optimization of the 
> trade-off between power, energy efficiency, sustainability and 
> performance, availability, resilience
> 
> ○  APIs for power management interfaces
> 
> ○  Sleep modes in RAN/O-RAN and core networks
> 
> ○  Timing and scheduling of hardware sleep modes in the access and backhaul
> 
> ○ Orchestration of sleep modes
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> ○ Decentralized energy management, e.g., using distributed ledger 
> technologies blockchain
> 
> ● Benchmarking of solutions w.r.t. energy efficiency and sustainability 
> based on KPIs
> 
> ●   Sensor and industrial automation networks
> 
> ● Evolutionary strategies for the achievement of 6G energy-efficiency 
> KPIs and Quality of Information improvement
> 
> ●   AI/ML techniques for power and performance management in virtualized 
> environments
> 
> ●   AI/ML for slicing energy efficiency, fog/cloud MEC virtualization, 
> self-x technologies, adaptation, automation, and zero-touch
> 
> ● Architectural solutions toward network sustainability
> 
> ○  Use of renewable energy by network infrastructure devices to reduce 
> network carbon footprint
> 
> ○ Power-aware network slicing
> 
> ○  Role of software in reducing network energy consumption and carbon 
> footprint
> 
> ○  Role of the edge to support energy sustainable infrastructure
> 
> ● Energy-efficiency and sustainability in all parts of networked services
> 
> ○  Wired and wireless energy efficiency
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> ○ Energy-saving Internet protocols
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> ○  Energy efficiency and carbon neutrality in the fog/MEC/cloud continuum
> 
> ○  Energy efficient internetworking of mobile backhaul/core and remote 
> data centers
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> ○ Energy-efficient 3D networks
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> ● Multi-technology solutions
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> ○  Mutual roles in energy saving of satellite and terrestrial networks
> 
> ○ Multipath support over multiple wireless technologies for access 
> traffic steering, switching, splitting (ATSS)
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> ●  Coping with the end of Moore’s law
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> ●  Role of standardization including network energy efficiency and 
> sustainability metrics
> 
> 
> *Workshop Chairs*
> 
> ================
> 
> Roberto Bruschi, University of Genoa and CNIT S2N National Lab, Italy 
> (roberto.bruschi at unige.it)
> 
> Franco Davoli, University of Genoa and CNIT S2N National Lab, Italy 
> (franco.davoli at unigeit <mailto:franco.davoli at unige.it>)
> 
> Hesham ElBakoury, Futurewei Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA 
> (helbakoury at gmail.com)
> 
> Timothy O'Farrell, University of Sheffield, UK (t.ofarrell at sheffield.ac.uk)
> 
> Tobias Hoßfeld, University of Würzburg, Germany 
> (tobias.hossfeld at uni-wuerzburg.de)
> 
> Frank Loh, University of Würzburg, Germany (frank.loh at uni-wuerzburg.de 
> <mailto:frank.loh at uni-wuerzburg.de>)
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> 
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