Welcome to IEEE GREENCOM'12!
We warmly welcome you to the 2012 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications, the second edition of the IEEE Communications Society conducted online and dedicated to addressing the challenges in energy-efficient communications and communications for green technologies.

To emphasize the need for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, IEEE GreenCom’12 will be held entirely online. The conference embraces the latest online conferencing technology that will allow attendees from all over the world to actively participate without the need to travel. GreenCom will also feature a full-fledged paper submission, review, and publication process that adheres to the high standards defined by IEEE’s flagship conferences. This process will be supplemented with additional content from online presentations that will be made available through IEEE ComSoc WebCasts.

GreenCom covers a wide spectrum of research subjects, including methodologies and architectures for energy efficiency, energy-efficient protocols and networks, energy management, smart grid communications, and communication technologies for green solutions. For more information on GreenCom’s topics and how to submit your paper please refer to calls & submit.

Philosophy

In the light of the developments of global warming and its impact on our environment, the society, and world economy, we believe that it is our responsibility to address the need for global greenhouse gas reduction within the range of our own abilities.

GreenCom addresses this challenge not only from a technical perspective, but adopts the philosophy of an integrated online approach where online conferencing complements the already established processes for online paper handling and publication. In contrast to physical attendance and in view of the technical subjects addressed by GreenComm, this integrated conferencing philosophy provides a more suitable approach from an ecological point of view in which “energy efficiency is discussed energy-efficiently”.

While we recognize that conventional face-to-face meetings provide an environment for personal exchange and will remain an important pillar in the community, the alternative ecological conferencing model introduces additional benefits, among which are its accessibility by a broader audience, a large value for a small price, flexible and time-efficient participation, as well as online forms of presentation and interaction that provide a near-physical experience due to the availability of powerful software tools.

Methodology

IEEE GreenCom relies on established processes for manuscript submission, review, and publication, which are implemented by IEEE ComSoc’s other major conferences. Throughout the paper handling process, authors have been supported by the EDAS management system.

GreenCom’s distinct feature is the use of an online conferencing environment, which will allow authors to present their accepted papers and to discuss them with the audience during live sessions. Each session will be guided by a moderator, who takes the role of a classical session chair, and who will also conduct the session in technical terms to guarantee ease of participation. While speakers present their research live, the audience may post questions at any time, which will be collected and handed over to the speaker at the end of a presentation. After each presentation, selected questions will be shared with all participants and answered by the speaker. To participate online, any popular Web browser will be sufficient and no special software will be required.

While online conference sessions will be similar to physical sessions in many ways, a major difference is the fact that attendees will be located in different geographical regions and world time zones. In order to allow as many people to tune in live to as many presentations as possible, GreenCom will therefore employ a special conference schedule. According to this schedule, a total of 12 consecutive sessions with breaks in between will occur during the conference. The sessions will be synchronized with world time zones in such a way that participation from most parts of the world will be convenient. Because due to time zone constraints not all sessions may be easily accessible for everyone, presentations of speakers will be made available also online through IEEE ComSoc WebCasts, along with the conference proceedings that will be published in IEEE ComSoc’s digital library and IEEE Xplore.

Please refer to the program and attendees sections for more information.

Contact Info

For questions on IEEE GreenCom’12, please send an email to greencom [at] comsoc [dot] org (subject: Greencom) .

Please note: New Conference Date is September 26-28 2012.

Please check updated Program at a Glance: http://www.ieee-greencom.org/program.html

Register to attend IEEE Greencom here: https://register.comsoc.org/ieee-greencom-2012

The 3rd annual IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) will be held from November 5 - 8, 2012 in Tainan City, Taiwan.

As a leading international forum dedicated to the advancement of the world’s power delivery infrastructure, IEEE SmartGridCom 2012 will host more than 100 tutorials, workshops, keynotes, panels and technical sessions dedicated to empowering today’s power grid with the capability to support the two-way flow of energy and information, quickly isolate and restore power after outages, facilitate the integration of renewable energy sources and provide the tools necessary for optimizing energy consumption.

IEEE SmartGridComm will begin with a full day of tutorials and workshops detailing topics such as “Smart Grid Communications: Research Challenges and Opportunities," "Communication Networks for Power Engineers," "Smart Metering Utility Networks (SUN) Standard – IEEE802.15.4g," "Communications within Power Substations: Breaking the EM Barrier," "Cognitive and Machine-to-Machine Communications and Networking for Smart Grid” and "Wireless Infrastructure for Smart Grid."

The conference’s three-day plenary and technical schedule will begin with the welcoming address of Dr. Chih-Kung Lee (C.K. Lee), President of the Institute for Information Industry and Vice Chairman of the SEMI Taiwan MEMS Committee. During his opening remarks, Dr. Lee will address the numerous case studies and perspectives surrounding the drive to develop “Taiwan ICT-driven Smart Grids” and the “ever-progressing enrichment of interactions in various forms of communications."

Noted anchor speakers include: Hiroshi Harada, Director, Smart Wireless Laboratory, NICT, Japan and Chair of Board of Promoters, Wi-SUN Alliance, who will discuss "Wi-SUN: A Wireless Smart Utility/Metering Network Based on IEEE 802.15.4g;" David Hill, Professor, Ausgrid Chair of Electrical Engineering, School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia, who will speak on "A Control View of Communication Challenges in Smarter Grids;" and Munther A. Dahleh, Professor, Associate Department Head, EECS, MIT, USA, who will address "Tradeoffs Between Efficiency and Risk in the Smart Grid."

Special presentation will be the “Smart Grid Forum – Its Challenges and Opportunities” hosted by Kuang-Chong Wu, Vice President, National Applied Research Laboratories and includes numerous distinguished panelists representing leading organizations such as the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Taiwan Power Company, the Smart Network System Institute and the Taiwan Smart Grid Industrial Association.

IEEE SmartGridComm 2012 will be earmarked by the quality and diversity of its technical symposia consisting of over 100 presentations delivered by industry experts from Germany, Australia, Japan, Canada, the United States, Denmark, China, India, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan.

Topics featured include "A Smart Meter Based Approach to Power Reliability," "AMI Threats, Intrusion Detection Requirements and Deployment Recommendations," "Complete Automation of Future Grid for Optimal Real-time Distribution of Renewables," "Coordinated Energy Scheduling for Residential Household for the Smart Grid," "Distributed Smart Charging of Electric Vehicles for Balancing Wind Energy" and "Mobile Charging Station Service in Smart Grid Networks."

For more information and ongoing updates on IEEE SmartGridComm 2012, please visit http://www.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/ or contact Heather Ann Sweeney of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) at 212-705-8938 or h [dot] sweeney [at] comsoc [dot] org. Interested parties are also welcome to reach out and share industry information with international colleagues via the conference website’s links to Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.