Sustainable Wireless Communication: Green Technologies and Energy-Efficient Networks
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mobile and wireless communications; research and educational management
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Interests: mobile systems; 6G; distributed systems; networking; security
Interests: wireless communications; radio access network design and optimization; mobile ad-hoc networks; green ICT
Interests: SDN; NFV; 5G; transport technologies; slicing; interconnection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
6G is a prominent technology to bring enormous communication capabilities and massive support for novel Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services, harnessing the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Even though previous and current generations (4G, 5G) have made some steps towards energy efficiency, the ongoing digitization of society at large, results in ever increasing energy consumption and carbon footprint for the ICT sector. Furthermore, with the sub-THz and THz 6G frequency band, the coverage of Base Stations (BSs) shrinks and the number of required BSs increases, while, the development of Internet of Things (IoT) results in a surging number of mobile devices, both resulting in increased total energy consumption. The objective of this Special Issue includes research related to measurement and modelling of the energy consumption and carbon footprint of the various network components and algorithms for allocating the energy usage and carbon footprint among different ICT services (ranging from video platforms and AI chatbots to merged reality applications, massive twinning and situational awareness). Ultimately, hardware, algorithms, protocols, system architectures and services are sought to be re-engineered to be more energy efficient and greener, including sustainability as a design criterion. To achieve this goal, the various actors should also be incentivized, from ICT providers to end users. The insights of this Special Issue will assist in the formulation of pivotal sustainability requirements, in order to shape the green 6G era.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:·
- Reduced energy consumption / carbon footprint of ICT services in the context of emerging next-generation mobile systems (i.e. Beyond 5G and 6G);
- Energy efficient cloud platforms;
- Optimized allocation of resources towards energy efficiency, including channels and bandwidth, power control, and transmission scheduling policy, BS deployment policy, workload management, and user association;
- Energy efficiency for resource and energy-constrained IoT devices, including multi-hop communications and relays;
- AI techniques for green BS management for 6G HetNets;
- Energy efficient satellites and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as emerging platforms to provide Internet access;
- Strategies for adapting the network performance and consumption to renewable energy availability;
- Innovative 6G RAN design for efficient multi-frequency band operation, maximizing spectral efficiency while minimizing energy consumption (e.g., reducing signaling overhead);
- Incentives to induce the desired end-to-end “carbon friendly behavior”, such as coordination of inter-operator service provisioning and energy-aware pricing.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Adamantia Stamou
Dr. Artur Hecker
Dr. Marvin Sanchez
Dr. Luis Miguel Contreras-Murillo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 6G
- wireless networks
- energy efficiency
- carbon efficiency
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- incentive mechanisms
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