The International Workshop on Green ICT and Smart Networking (GISN 2016)

GISN Keynote

Energy efficient cloud networks

Prof. Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Leeds, UK)
Cloud computing is expected to be a major factor that will dominate the future Internet service model. This talk summarizes our work on energy efficiency for cloud networks. We describe a framework for studying the energy efficiency of four cloud services in IP over WDM networks: cloud content delivery, storage as a service (StaaS), and virtual machines (VMS) placement for processing applications and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Our approach is based on the co-optimization of both external network related factors such as whether to geographically centralize or distribute the clouds, the influence of users' demand distribution, content popularity, access frequency and renewable energy availability and internal capability factors such as the number of servers, switches and routers as well as the amount of storage demanded in each cloud. Our investigation of the different energy efficient approaches uses Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models and real time heuristics.

GISN Session 1

Power Proportional Computing for "Green" Servers
Earl McCune (RF Communications Consulting & Eridan Communications, USA)
A Routing Optimization Method based on Risk Prediction for Communication Services in Smart Grid
Puyuan Zhao (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Peng Yu, Chenchen Ji, Lei Feng and Li Wenjing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
The Green Sustainable Telco Cloud: Minimizing greenhouse gas emissions of server load migrations between distributed data centres
Thomas Dandres (École Polytechnique de Montréal & École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Reza Farrahi Moghaddam (ETS, University of Quebec, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Yves Lemieux (Ericsson Research Canada, Canada); Réjean Samson (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)

GISN Session 2

Driver Identification and Authentication with Active Behavior Modeling
Angela Burton (Vanderbilt University, USA); Tapan Parikh, Shannon Mascarenhas and Jue Zhang (New York Institute of Technology, USA); Jonathan Voris (Lunch Actually, USA); Nabi Sertac Artan and Wenjia Li (New York Institute of Technology, USA)
An Improved Markov Method for Prediction of User Mobility
Yihang Cheng, Yuanyuan Qiao and Jie Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Cresco: A distributed agent-based edge computing framework
Cody Bumgardner, Victor Marek and Caylin Hickey (University of Kentucky, USA)
Monitoring and Measurement System for Green Operation of Geographically Distributed ICT Services
Ana Carolina Riekstin (Kaloom, Canada); Thomas Dandres (École Polytechnique de Montréal & École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Réjean Samson (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)

GISN Panel Discussion

IEEE Green ICT initiative - roadmap

The IEEE Green ICT initiative is a three-year endeavor launched in January 2015 with the mission to develop a holistic approach to sustainability by incorporating green metrics in various IEEE fields of interest. Following a description of the initiative, this panel session will discuss the broad technology, commercial and policy challenges that must be addressed in order to fully leverage information and communication technologies (ICT) for sustainability purposes. Panelists: