| 08:30 - 08:45 |
Welcome/ Opening address |
08:45 - 9:35 (50min) |
Keynote Talk by Dr. Chih-Lin I CMCC Green Innovation Center, China |
| 9:35 - 10:05 |
Networking Break |
10:05 - 11:45 (5 papers, 100min) |
Technical Session 1: Green Cellular Network |
| Overview of Green Radio Research Outcomes - John Thompson and Chadi Khirallah | |
| Fundamental Tradeoffs and Evaluation Methodology for Future Green Wireless Networks - Gaoning He, Shunqing Zhang, Yan Chen, and Shugong Xu | |
| On the Energy- Bandwidth Trade-off in Green Wireless Networks: System Level Results - Muhammad Majid Butt, Benjamin Schubert, Martin Kurras, Kai Borner, Thomas Haustein, and Lars Thiele | |
| Integrated Cross-Layer Energy Savings in a Smart and Flexible Cellular Network - Weisi Guo, Siyi Wang, Charles Turyagyenda, and Timothy O'Farrell | |
| Network Energy Efficiency for Deployment Architectures with Base Station Site Model - Chih-Hsuan Tang, Chi-En Wu, Chin-Wei Lin, and Chen-Yin Liao | |
11:45 - 12:35 (50min) |
Keynote Talk by Prof. Rod Tucker The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 12:35 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
14:00 - 14:50 (50min) |
Keynote Talk by Prof. Zhisheng Niu Tsinghua University, China Title: "A Novel Hyper-Cellular Architecture for Globally Resource-optimized and Energy-Efficient Networks (GREEN)" |
| 14:50 - 15:20 |
Networking Break |
15:20 - 17:00 (5 papers, 100min) |
Technical Session 2: Energy Efficiency in Wireless Systems |
| Performance Analysis of Multiuser Uplink Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks with Fixed-gain Relaying - Guangping Li, Steven D Blostein, Guangchi Zhang, and Jiuchao Feng | |
| A Resource Configuration Scheme in OFDMA-based Cellular Relay Networks - Hua Chen, Mugen Peng, and Jiamo Jiang | |
| Optimizing Dual-Hop Systems under Orthogonal Transmission and Relay Selection Schemes - Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu, Feifei Gao;, and Lisheng Fan | |
| Radio Resource Allocation for OSC Downlink Channels - Michael A. Ruder, Raimund Meyer, Hans Kalveram, and Wolfgang Gerstacker | |
| Spatial-Temporal Compressed Sensing Based Traffic Prediction in Cellular Networks - Qian Wen, Zhifeng Zhao, Rongpeng Li, and Honggang Zhang | |
17:00 - 18:00 (60mins) |
Panel Theme: 5G, think it green, and make it rea Panelists: Prof. Zhisheng Niu, Prof. Tim O'Farrel, Dr. Lars Thiele, and Prof. Vincent Lau |
| 18:00 |
End of Workshop |
| Line Up For the GREEN Land | |
 Dr. Chih-Lin I CMCC Green Innovation Center |
Abstract: The explosion of mobile Internet has escalated demand for wireless network upgrading and scaling. Nevertheless, the continuous expansion of network brings sharp increase in the OPEX of radio networks, particularly in terms of the energy consumption costs. As the world's largest mobile operator, China Mobile is confronted with the energy cost issues as well. Since 2007, we started a "Green Action Plan", with objectives of network energy efficiency improvements and network energy conservation. This plan has achieved significant results through efforts of five years. Moreover, based on years' cumulative experiences with radio networks, China Mobile also look toward the future network trend, and have proposed CRAN and a new generation energy-efficient communication system as the leading future network models. Also, We hope to promote the greener mobile communication networks jointly with the whole telecom industry, so as to share a greener land with all the global citizens and at a faster speed. |
| Biography: Dr. Chih-Lin I graduated from Stanford University and majored in Electrical Engineering. Her researches focus on the leading techniques of wireless communication system. Before joining China Mobile Research Institute, She was with the following institutes and labs respectively:
Dr. Chih-Lin I is now Chief Scientist of Wireless Technologies, China Mobile Research Institute, and leading research on new Wireless Internet and Green Communication Technologies. She joined China Mobile Research Institute as a recipient of CCCP "National Thousand Talent Program". She has been on IEEE ComSoc Board of Directors, the Director of IEEE ComSoc Technical Meetings and Conferences Board, and the Chair of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Steering Committee. She has also been the Steering Committee Chair of Mobile Wireless Multimedia and Communication Center in the Information Technology Institute of Tsinghua University, Chair of HKUST ECE Dept domestic Advisory Committee, Honorary Director of AWTRC in the Computing Institute of Chinese Academy of Science, and Communication Technology Foreign Experts of Chinese State Council, etc. |
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 Prof. Rod Tucker University of Melbourne |
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| Biography: Today’s Internet consumes approximately 1% of the world’s electricity, and the servers and data centers that underpin the “cloud” consume a similar amount of energy. This energy consumption is growing as the Internet expands in reach and capacity, and as the demand for cloud services increases. In this talk, I will examine the key contributors to energy consumption in the Internet and cloud computing, and examine the projected energy consumption under various scenarios for future network growth. The energy consumption of the network is currently dominated by access networks, both wired and wireless, but the energy consumption of routers and switches in the network is also rising rapidly, and will eventually dominate over the access network. I will briefly review research efforts aimed at improving the energy efficiency of the network. | |
| Biography: Rod Tucker is a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne and Director of the University of Melbourne's Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET). He is also Director of the Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society, which is a foundation member of the GreenTouchTM consortium. Rod leads a group of academics and students undertaking research on broadband access technologies and energy-efficient in telecommunications. Rod has previously held positions at Plessey, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and Agilent Technologies. He joined the University of Melbourne in 1990. | |
| A Novel Hyper-Cellular Architecture for Globally Resource-optimized and Energy-Efficient Networks (GREEN) |
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 Prof. Zhisheng Niu Tsinghua University |
Abstract: As mobile data and video traffic is fast growing, the next-generation mobile communication (5G?) networks are expected to further provide 10-fold more capacity than 4G mobile networks with the limited spectrum as well as energy resources. To deal with this challenge, the traditional physical- and MAC-layer capacity-enhancement approaches are no more sufficient and efficient. A system- or network-level approach is needed, including rethinking about the existing cellular structure. In this talk, we propose a new cellular architecture, named hyper-cellular networks (HCN), aiming at increasing the whole network capacity by more than 10-fold based on the existing limited spectrum and energy resources. The key idea here is to separate the coverage of control signals from the coverage of data signals so that the data coverage can be more elastic in accordance with the dynamics of traffic needs and QoS requirements. Some preliminary results have shown that this new paradigm has a great potential in the capacity enhancement and energy saving. |
| Biography: Zhisheng Niu graduated from Northern Jiaotong University (currently Beijing Jiaotong University), Beijing, China, in 1985, and got his M.E. and D.E. degrees from Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. After spending two years at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, he joined with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1994, where he is now a professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering and the deputy dean of the School of Information Science and Technology. His major research interests include queueing theory, traffic engineering, mobile Internet, radio resource management of wireless networks, and green communication and networks. Dr. Niu has been an active volunteer for various academic societies, including council member of Chinese Institute of Electronics (2006-10), vice chair of the Information and Communication Network Committee of Chinese Institute of Communications (2008-12), Councilor of IEICE-Japan (2009-11), and membership development coordinator of IEEE Region 10 (2009-10). In particular, in IEEE Communication Society, he has been serving as an editor of IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine (2009-12), director of Asia-Pacific Region (2008-09), director for Conference Publications (2010-11), chair of Beijing Chapter (2001-08), and members of Award Committee (2011-13), Emerging Technologies Committee (2010-12), On-line Content Committee (2010-12), and Strategy Planning Committee. He has also been serving as general co-chairs of APCC'09/WiCOM'09, TPC co-chairs of APCC'04/ICC'08/WOCC'10/ICCC'12, panel co-chair of WCNC'10, tutorial co-chairs of VTC'10-fall/Globecom'12, and publicity co-chairs of PIMRC'10/WCNC'02. He was the guest co-editors of the IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine Special Issue on Green Radio Communications and Networks (published on Oct. 2011) and the Communication Networks Special Issue on Green Communication Networks (to be published in 2012). Prof. Niu received the Best Paper Awards from the 13th and 15th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communication (APCC) in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and Outstanding Young Researcher Award from Natural Science Foundation of China in 2009. He is now the Chief Scientist of the National Fundamental Research Program (so called "973 Project") of China "Fundamental Research on the Energy and Resource Optimized Hyper-Cellular Mobile Communication System" (2012-2016), which is the first national project green communications in China. He is the fellow of IEEE and IEICE, and a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Communication Society (2012-13). |
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