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IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
Special Issue on Communications and Computing for Green Industrial IoT and Smart Grids
https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tgcn/cfp/communications-and-computing-green-industrial-iot-and-smart
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Call for Papers
The goal of this Special Issue is to advance and promote significant technological advances for Green Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). IIoT covers the broad domain of smart grid, smart manufacturing, intelligent transport and smart cities, and it refers to the combination of IoT technology with big data coming from intelligent processes in those domains. Energy-efficient transmission and processing of this data targets automation, efficiency, and productivity increase. In particular, smart grid can be considered as a typical IIoT example, since it comprises an industrial setting with a large number of IoT devices. Within Green Industrial IoT, smart grid communications uses state-of-the-art communication technologies towards ensuring the reduction of energy consumption, optimal operation of the smart grid, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), as well as coordination between the different smart grid components from generation to distribution and consumption. Contributions focusing on green smart grid communications, as well as other energy-efficient IIoT related research are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Energy efficient machine-to-machine communications and cooperative communications in IIoT.
- Advanced sensors and energy-efficient sensing techniques for IIoT.
- Green AI-enabled IIoT.
- Edge AI-driven computing solutions for green IIoT.
- AI-enabled blockchain for IIoT.
- Communications, computing, and storage issues for energy-efficient IIoT.
- Intelligent applications and services for energy-efficient IIoT including automation, location tracking for tools, as well as predictive maintenance for maximizing uptime.
- Energy-efficient Network Function Virtualization (NFV) for IIoT.
- Green wireline, optical, and wireless communications and networks.
- Green smart grid communications for HANs, NANs, FANs.
- Environmentally-aware designs of communications and networking devices and systems.
- Breakthrough technologies, protocols and network architectures for resource allocation and energy efficiency in massive IIoT.
- Energy-efficient transceiver hardware architectures for IIoT, including metasurface-made reflectors and transceivers.
- Energy harvesting solutions for IIoT.
- Communications, computing, and storage issues for battery-free IIoT.
Important Dates:
Manuscript submission: March 1st, 2021
Notification of decisions (1st round): June 1st, 2021
Target publication date: September 1st, 2021
Guest Editors:
Melike Erol-Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada
George C. Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Peter Han Joo Chong, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Andrea Tonello, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway
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