Call for Papers

IEEE Internet Computing

 

IEEE Internet Computing magazine dingbat logoSustainable Internet

Final submissions due: 1 May 2012
Publication date: January/February 2013

Please email the guest editors a brief description of the article you plan to submit by 15 April 2012.

Steadily rising energy costs and the need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to protect the environment have turned energy into one of the primary technological challenges of our time. Recent studies reveal staggering facts about how information and communication technology (ICT) is becoming a major component of the energy consumption budget. ICT is responsible for roughly 3 to 5 percent of the world’s energy consumption, a figure expected to double in the next decade, without drastic changes. As a result of these trends, some projections indicate that the new generation of Internet applications will require amounts of electricity that can’t be generated or transported to major metropolitan areas.

Both the replacement of energy-greedy equipment with new, energy-efficient hardware, and the exploitation of smart approaches for placing data centers and energy generators, can improve this situation. However, new, comprehensive energy-aware approaches to networking are also necessary, and they should consider the network as a whole, including core networks, wired and wireless access networks, customer premises network equipment, data centers, and server farms. Advanced approaches will also need to consider the entire network’s energy consumption in their design, planning, and management phases.

This special issue aims at providing the state-of-the-art in research and development of energy-efficient networking solutions from both academia and industry. Possible topics include

  • measurements and models for energy consumption in user devices, network elements, and data centers;
  • energy efficiency for wired, wireless, and mobile networks;
  • energy efficiency for the core network;
  • energy efficiency for content distribution architectures and applications;
  • prototypes, testbeds, and experimental results;
  • life-cycle assessment of networks and network components;
  • designing networks with a limited energy budget;
  • network resilience running under limited energy conditions;
  • zero-emissions networks; and
  • the use of renewable energy in networks.

Questions?

Contact Guest Editors: Michela Meo, Alberto Conte, and Azer Bestavros (ic1-2013@computer.org)

All submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000 words, focused on Internet technologies and implementations. All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to IC’s international readership—primarily system and software design engineers. We do not accept white papers, and we discourage strictly theoretical or mathematical papers. To submit a manuscript, please log on to ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:443/ic-cs) to create or access an account, which you can use to log on to IC’s Author Center and upload your submission.