Energy in Communication, Information, and Cyber-physical Systems (E6)

COMSNETS 2012 workshop - January 4, 2012

Energy efficiency as a means to sustainable high-quality life is currently of a high interest to the public, governments, and industry. The E6 (Energy in Communication, Information, and Cyber-physical Systems) workshop at COMSNETS 2012 focuses on energy efficiency in communication, information, and cyber-physical systems, as well as their computation, communication, sensing, and actuating components. Within this scope, the E6 workshop seeks original paper submissions on architectures, protocols, applications, services, systems, models, theoretical analysis, simulations, real-system experiments, measurements, and usage studies in such areas as:

Communication networks, including machine-to-machine communications, network virtualization, routing, transmission control, channel access, wireless and optical communication media;
End systems, including mobile phones, radio-frequency identification devices, robots, and other sensors and actuators;
Data centers, including cloud computing;
Electricity networks, including electricity generation, transmission, distribution, control, consumption, and metering;
Transportation networks, including vehicles, infrastructure, operation, congestion, navigation, and safety
Building automation, including homes and commercial buildings, lighting, heating, air conditioning, and other appliance control;
Economic and social factors, including financial rewards, social pressure, curiosity and other natural incentives.

The full-day workshop features a keynote speech by Prof. Prashant Shenoy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. In addition to the keynote speech and regular paper presentations, the E6 program will include a panel discussion in one of the workshop focus areas.