IEEE SECON Workshop on Green and Sustainable Communication Networks, Salt Lake City, Vereinigte Staaten

This workshop invites papers on a broad range of topics that pertain to networks that are energy efficient, reusable, long&#8211;lived, and that enable other sustainability initiatives for our planet&#046; <BR><BR>It has been estimated that information and communication technologies (ICT) account for about 600 billion kWh of electricity usage annually, about 400 million metric tons of CO2 emissions each year&#046; Therefore, there is great emerging interest in the design of networks which are energy&#8211;efficient, reusable, and yield a lower carbon footprint&#046; There are many other ways in which communication networks can be deployed to enable initiatives pertaining to environmental sustainability; for instance, networks can be deployed to monitor air pollution, or manage energy utilization of buildings&#046; And in a different, but related notion of sustainability, some application require the deployment and management of networks that can be sustainably operated over long periods, such as networks for monitoring earthquakes and tsunamis&#046; <BR><BR>