Call for Papers

Internet of Things (IoT) is a key enabler for many modernized applications from marine monitoring to outer space exploration. However, the complicated operations (such as device interconnection, data transmission, and service optimization) will consume substantial energy in contrast with limited energy storage of IoT devices. To improve architectural sustainability and ultimately reduce systemic cost, the greenness design of IoT has become ever prominent. Particularly, with the continuous penetration of advanced information and communications (ICT) technologies (such as VR/AR, UAVs, and automobiles), our smart world is being surrounded by big IoT data that extremely craves for energy-efficient caching, computing, networking and securing.

Some emerging techniques (e.g., edge computing, SDN/ICN, artificial intelligence) are envisioned to have promising ability to bring novel approaches to overcome the sustainability limitations of current IoT systems. However, how to fully utilize these techniques from communication, data processing, and computing etc., to improve the energy efficiency of IoT still faces with many fundamental challenges. Some open issues require immediate studies, such as:

• How can we achieve much higher energy efficiency of the IoT network with limited bandwidth provisioning and low transmit power?
• How can we utilize advanced capabilities of IoT, such as in-network storage and caching, offload the IoT data in order to release the traffic scale in the cellular networks and provide low-latency IoT services in an energy efficient manner?
• Can we leverage recent advances in computing to design an energy efficient computing platform for IoT?
• How can we design the lightweight security schemes such as encryption, to reduce the energy consumption of a secure IoT network?

This special issue will solicit high-quality papers with novel contributions on Green IoT, from the perspective of energy efficiency and reducing energy consumption. Contributions by the applications of emerging technologies (e.g., social computing, big data computing, fog computing, edge computing, emotional computing, SDN) to address the greenness issue of IoT are also welcome.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Energy-efficient transmission for IoT
• Energy-efficient resource allocation for IoT
• Energy-efficient computing for IoT
• Energy-efficient networking protocol for IoT
• Energy-efficient IoT architecture
• Energy-efficient caching for IoT
• Energy-efficient UAV for IoT
• Energy-efficient vehicular networking for IoT
• Energy-efficient D2D/M2M
• Energy-efficient cognitive IoT
• Social networking and computing for green IoT
• Big data for green IoT
• Cloud computing for green IoT
• Edge computing for green IoT
• Software-defined networks for green IoT
• Network virtualization for green IoT
• Middleware for green IoT
• Testbeds for green IoT
• Novel applications for green IoT
• Artificial intelligence for green IoT
• Cybersecurity for green IoT

Submission Guidelines

Authors need to follow the manuscript format and an allowable number of pages described at the IEEE TGCN Information for Authors page. To submit a manuscript for consideration for the special issue, please visit the journal submission website at Manuscript Central.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 1 January 2021 (Extended Deadline)
First Review Due: 1 February 2021
Revision Due: 1 March 2021
Second Review Notification: 31 March 2021
Final Manuscript: 20 April 2021
Publication Date: June 2021

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