CLOSED: Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sustainable Computing

Publication: March/April 2025

The rapid growth of today’s computing and networking infrastructure, such as data centers, cloud platforms, and cellular networks, is being driven by continuing advances and new applications in machine learning, augmented reality, and scientific computing. This has led to a sharp rise in the carbon footprint of computing, raising environmental concerns. As such, the design of sustainable computing and network systems has emerged as an urgent research need to decarbonize these systems and make them carbon-efficient.

IEEE Internet Computing magazine invites researchers and industry experts to contribute to our forthcoming special issue on Sustainable Computing. The objective of this special issue is to enable researchers and practitioners to share novel and high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Sustainable Computing. The special issue will take a broad view of systems and network research, relevant metrics, and hardware and software infrastructure related to sustainability. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Sustainable cloud and edge computing
• Sustainable networking
• Sustainability metrics for computing and networking
• Embodied and operational carbon management
• Carbon-aware resource management
• Carbon-aware application design
• Lifecycle optimization of computing systems
• Grid-data center interactions

Submission Guidelines

For author information and guidelines on submission criteria, visit the Author’s Information page.

Important Submission Instructions:

As of 30 October 2024, IEEE Internet Computing will use the IEEE Author Portal for all new submissions.

• If you have not yet started the submission process, please use the IEEE Author Portal to submit your article.
• If you have started a draft of your submission OR if you submitted your paper prior to the IEEE Author Portal launch, you will finish the peer review life cycle of submission(s) currently under review through ScholarOne Manuscripts. You do not need to submit a new manuscript. All new and future submissions will be submitted entirely through the IEEE Author Portal.

Please be sure to select the special issue or special section name when you submit your article. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts. If requested, abstracts should be sent by email to the guest editors directly.

Questions?

Contact the guest editors at irwin@ecs.umass.edu.

• David Irwin, Lead Guest Editor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst