Energy consumption and electromagnetic pollution are societal and economic challenges of prime importance that developed countries have to tackle. The evolution of future communication infrastructures will have to take into consideration both the aforementioned factors. The increasing demand for bandwidth-hungry multimedia and internet-related wireless devices and services has spurred the need towards maximal exploitation of spectral resources. Since 2006, data traffic on wireless networks has grown by approximately 400% and is expected to continue to increase rapidly in the coming years. The widespread use of complex, spectrum efficient techniques to support such high data volumes, the demand for higher data rates and the ever-increasing number of wireless users translate to rapidly rising power consumption. Currently consuming 3% of the energy and causing 2% of the CO2 emissions globally, the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) industries are facing an increase in associated energy consumption of 16-20% per year. Furthermore, the energy costs for mobile operators can be as high as half of their annual operating budgets. The foregoing considerations highlight the urgent need for designing smart and green communications and networks.

This workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to design of smart and green communications and networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Downlink and uplink PHY/MAC design for energy efficient networks

Metrics, fundamental limits, and trade-offs involving energy efficiency

Energy efficiency of different network deployment strategies

Energy-efficient base station architectures and networking

Energy-efficiency in home and enterprise networking

Interference analysis, alignment, avoidance, and coordination

Green back-haul networks

Green cognitive communications and networks

Power control and power saving mechanisms

Small cell networks

Cooperative radio communications for green and smart environments

Information theory on energy efficiency

Self organizing networks and issues in self maintenance and self install

Energy efficient circuit and system design

Resource allocation techniques

Domestic Energy Management

Interaction of wireless networks with smart grids and power management

Test-bed, experimental results, and hardware prototypes

Regulation and standardization

Application of green communications and networks

Paper Submission	~~14 May 2012~~ 28 May 2012
Accept Notification	15 Jun 2012
Camera-Ready	30 Jun 2012
Workshop	15 Aug 2012