Green Computing and Communications for Smart Portable Devices
1Chongqing University of Posts and Telecom, Chongqing, China
2Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
3Penn State University, State College, USA
4University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
5Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
6University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA
Green Computing and Communications for Smart Portable Devices
Description
Smart portable devices have been playing a crucial role in the long-term evolutionary (LTE) communications and are expected to be an indispensable part of the 5G system. While smart portable devices (e.g., smartphone and tablets) have powerful computing and communication capabilities, the high data rate services, however, drain out the energy of the device much faster than before. A mobile user, for example, can watch a video on a smartphone, be served an ad for an interesting item, and tap through to the site to purchase it on the phone. However, the current phone battery is not durable to support all these activities in one day. Even worse, if a user typically transmits/shares large volumes of data for a long time, it will shorten the lifetime of the device significantly and deplete the batteries rapidly. As a result, cost-effective and energy-efficient computing and communication mechanism for smart portable devices are required to be designed and developed.
With the goal of reduction of energy consumption, green computing and communication refer to the solutions that are able to improve the network’s performances in terms of computing/energy efficiency, data privacy, and network security. This special issue intends to bring together the leading researchers and developers from both academia and industry to discuss and present their views on all the aspects of green computing and communications for smart portable devices.
All submissions should neither have been published previously nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The submitted papers will undergo a strict peer review based on originality, quality, and relevance to this special issue and the journal.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Energy-efficient techniques for 5G wireless communication systems
- Green smart devices for Internet of Things
- Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling
- Energy efficiency in big data networking
- Low cost, energy-efficient antenna and RF designs
- Green network monitoring and measurements
- Green communications under delay or quality of service constraints
- Theory, modeling, analysis, and/or optimization for green and sustainable communications and systems
- Self-organizing green wireless networks
- Advanced metering infrastructure and smart meter technologies
- Economy and pricing for green communication and services
- Context-based green management and green awareness
- Experimental test-beds and results for green communications
- Green technologies for intelligent transport systems
- Cross-layer design and optimization for green communications and networking
- Green optical communications, switching, and networking
- Physical layer approaches for green communications
- Green techniques for smart highways and vehicular networks
- Signal processing for green communications
- Sustainable communication platforms
- Standardization, policy, and regulation for green communications and computing