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Special Issue on

Technologies for Green Radio Communication Networks

IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Since 2006, data traffic on wireless networks has grown by approximately 400% and is expected to continue to increase rapidly in the coming years. The widespread use of complex, spectrum efficient techniques to support such high data volumes, the demand for higher data rates and the ever-increasing number of wireless users translate to rapidly rising power consumption. Currently consuming 3% of the energy and causing 2% of the CO2 emissions globally, the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) industries are facing an increase in associated energy consumption of 16-20% per year. Furthermore, the energy costs for mobile operators can be as high as half of their annual operating budgets. The foregoing considerations highlight the urgent need for focusing on energy efficiency. While there is much leeway for developing energy efficient and low power solutions for wireless networks, such as based on cognitive radios, multi-hop relaying, cooperative communications and MIMO systems, todays communication networks are not much considering energy consumption issues into their design or development. The main reason is that this topic is not yet a focus of practical work and so far no solid research work has given support and evidence for any technique of reducing the overall system energy consumption. This Special Issue will assemble high-quality research articles as well as comprehensive survey papers on recent technological advances in the field of Green Radio Communication Networks. These contributions will serve as valuable references and trend indicators for researchers and engineers from both industry and academia. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Current view and impact of energy consumption in wireless communications networks Trends and challenges of achieving low energy consumption in wireless networks Energy efficiency metrics and measurements in wireless networks Energy efficient network concepts and architectures. Relaying, cognitive, cooperative and MIMO techniques Self-organizing/optimizing networks Energy efficient hardware, devices and designs Interaction of wireless networks with smart grids and power management Regulation and standardization Test-bed, experimental results, and hardware prototypes Applications and business models of energy efficient wireless networks Operators experience Coordinated power control for network-wide energy optimization
Energy minimization of system-wide components

Relationships between energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency

Prospective authors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine manuscript format described at http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/info/sub_guidelines.html. Articles should be tutorial in

nature to help readers outside the specialty of the field to gain a clear and good understanding of the topic. Electronic submissions in PDF format is strongly encouraged and should be sent by email to ehjchong@ntu.edu.sg with cc to all the guest editors. Schedule Manuscripts Due March 1, 2011 Acceptance Notification June 15, 2011 Final Manuscript Submission July 15, 2011 Publication Date October 2011

Guest Editors Peter Han Joo Chong Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Email: ehjchong@ntu.edu.sg Cyril Leung University of British Columbia, Canada Email: cleung@ece.ubc.ca Zhisheng Niu Tsing Hua University, China Email: niuzhs@tsinghua.edu.cn Tapani Ristaniemi University of Jyvskyl, Finland Email: tapani.e.ristaniemi@jyu.fi Boon-Chong Seet Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Email: bcseet@ieee.org