Computer networks, communication systems, and other IT infrastructures have a growing environmental footprint due to the significant amounts of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission. To address such problems and create a sustainable environment, new energy models, algorithms, methodologies, platforms, tools and systems are required to support next-generation computing and communication infrastructures. Thus, green computing and communications solutions should be designed to better integrate renewable energy sources, to improve energy efficiency, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and harmful materials.

The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom-2018) will be an exciting international forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to exchange their novel research regarding advancements in the state-of-art of green computing and communications, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and open issues for further researches.

[Technical Tracks]
Track I: Green Computing and Communication Technologies
• Green infrastructure sustainable design and technologies
• Energy- and power-constrained devices and gateways
• Ultra-low power systems architectures
• Low-power, distributed data processing on sensors
• Energy-efficient M2M wired and wireless communications and
networking
• Optimization and/or analysis in green computing and communications (including core network optimization)
• Green big data, cloud, and data center architecture
• Green technologies for 5G (SDN, IoT, and crowdsourcing, etc.)
• Energy harvesting communications and networks
• Energy efficient networking, communications and protocols
• Machine learning/deep learning approaches for green communications and computing
• Measurement and modeling of energy consumption
• Security in green communications and computing
• Artificial intelligence approaches for green networking
• Experimental test-beds, standardization and field trials

Track II: Smart Energy and Smart Grid
• Smart metering infrastructure and technologies
• Large-scale monitoring, control and demand response
• Advanced data fusion, mining and modeling in smart grid
• Management and control of distributed energy generation, storage and consumption
• Advanced smart grid applications: grid-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-grid, Micro-grid
• Electrical vehicle charging/discharging strategies
• Renewable energy generation and new energy sources
• Standardization and benchmark

Track III: Green Society Applications
• Smart sensing systems
• Smart city
• Green vehicle, green home, green buildings and green anything
• Green industrial automation and control
• Intelligent Transport Systems and control
• Energy efficiency in aerial/UAV communication networks
• Green social networks
• Applications of blockchain in energy management and trading

[Keynote Speaker]
Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo

[Committees]
General Chairs
• Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua University, China
• Lian Zhao, Ryerson University, Canada
Program Chairs
• Jun Cai, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Dusit (Tao) Niyato, NTU, Singapore
Vice Program Chairs
• Deniz Gündüz, Imperial College London, UK
• Wenbo He, McMaster University, Canada
• Himal A. Suraweera, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Organizing Chairs
• Jason Rhinelander, Saint Mary's University, Canada
• Xianjun Deng, STFX, Canada/USC, China
Workshop Chair
• Muhammad Ismail, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
Publicity Chair
• Sheng Zhou, Tsinghua University, China
Publication Chair
• Hongbin Liang, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Web and System Chair
• Zihao Jiang, STFX, Canada

[Important Dates]
Workshop Proposal Due: 15 February, 2018
Paper Submission Deadline: 01 March, 2018
Authors Notification: 15 April, 2018
Camera-Ready Paper Due: 15 May, 2018
Early Registration Due: 15 May, 2018
Conference Dates: 30 July-03 August, 2018

[Paper Submission Guideline]
All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference
submission website (EDAS) in word or PDF format at:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24287. The materials presented in the
papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is
limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with overlength charge) including figures
and references using the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings manuscripts style
(two columns, single-spaced, font size 10). You can access the IEEE Computer
Society Proceedings Author Guidelines from the following link:
http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/

Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by
the IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI) and IEEE Xplore. At least
one of the authors of any accepted paper must register and present the
paper. Best Paper Awards will be presented at the conference. High quality
papers will be nominated to publish at various journal special issues.