3rd International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Networking (GreenNet 2024)
GreenNet 2024
In 2015, all United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 agenda for a sustainable future with 17 goals for sustainable development [1]. These goals form a basis of different flagship projects towards a sustainable, energy efficient, but also high-performing 6th generation mobile network (6G), e.g. [2]. Considerable actions are currently undertaken toward greener networks and ICT in general (see, e.g., [3]-[7]). In this context, the general question on how future networks can reduce the carbon footprint arises. However, also other challenges like resource consumption or environmental pollution by many low-cost end devices must be taken into consideration in future networks including non-terrestrial networks. Worldwide initiatives like GSMA Mobile Net Zero, UN’s Race To Zero, and the Climate Pledge are growing, grouping major providers towards the double objective of achieving carbon neutral network infrastructures and of helping third-party sectors’ sustainability. Tackling these issues is one major task for network researchers and engineers in the current and future decades.
The goal of the GreenNet Workshop is to explore the issues of novel networking, management, monitoring, and processing technologies and techniques and find suitable traffic and power models, as well as management and control strategies, along with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to be used for the lifecycle management and optimization of VNFs and the creation and dynamic reconfiguration of network slices, to match as closely as possible the desired balance between sustainability in terms of energy consumption and capacity performance. Furthermore, it is important to consider the energy efficiency and sustainability of the complete network, not only the access network, using monitoring and management solutions from data generation to data processing and further usage. Though these topics have received a great deal of attention in recent years, the organizers believe that much research work still needs to be done. Furthermore, a lively exchange of ideas between academia and industry is a key driver to foster the adaption of the ideas.
The link to the GreenNet Workshop Website is available here.
Please find the Workshop at the ICC Conference page here.
Organizing Committee:
Franco Davoli, University of Genoa and CNIT S2N National Lab, Italy (franco.davoli@unige.it)
Hesham ElBakoury, Independent Consultant, Santa Clara, CA, USA (helbakoury@gmail.com)
Timothy O'Farrell, University of Sheffield, UK (t.ofarrell@sheffield.ac.uk)
Tobias Hoßfeld, University of Würzburg, Germany (tobias.hossfeld@uni-wuerzburg.de)
Frank Loh, University of Würzburg, Germany (frank.loh@uni-wuerzburg.de)
Chiara Lombardo, University of Genoa and CNIT S2N National Lab, Italy (chiara.lombardo@unige.it)
