SustainIT 2012 - Call for Participation

[Valerio Arnaboldi]

[Apologies for possible multiple copies of this announcement]



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CALL  FOR  PARTICIPATION

Second IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Internet & ICT for Sustainability

SustainIT 2012
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/sustainit2012/

Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
October 4-5, 2012


Sponsored by:    IFIP TC6 WG 6.3 - Performance of Communication Systems
Co-sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society - TC on Computer Communications

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MAIN FEATURES:

*** Five Technical Sessions

*** Two Keynote Speeches

*** Two Special Sessions with Panel Discussion on Major On-going Projects 

*** WiP/Demo Session

*** Ph.D. Forum

*** Best Papers Award

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

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Day 1 - October 4, 2012
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8:45 - 9:00 Opening Remarks

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speech
TITLE: Transforming ICT Networks for a Sustainable Future
SPEAKER: Thierry Klein, Head of Green Research at Bell Labs and Chair of Technical Committee, GreenTouch.

10:00 - 11:00 Session 1: Energy Efficiency in Data Centers

Modelling and Analysing the Power Consumption of Idle Servers 
Robert Basmadjian, Florian Niedermeier, Hermann de Meer (University of Passau, Germany)

Optimizing the Use of Request Distribution and Stored Energy for Cost Reduction in Multi-Site Internet Services 
Maja Etinski (Technical University of Catalunya, Spain); Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University, USA); Kien Le, Ricardo Bianchini, Thu Nguyen (Rutgers University, USA)
 
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:50 Session 2: Energy Intelligence in Buildings & Enterprises (Concise Papers)

Performance Evaluation of Mobility-Based Energy-Saving to Control Air-conditioning and Lighting Equipments
Akihito Hiromori, Takumi Kanaya, Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, Japan)

An Algorithm based on Finite State Machines with Fuzzy Transitions for Non-intrusive Load Disaggregation 
Pietro Ducange, Francesco Marcelloni, Dario Marinari (University of Pisa, Italy)

Neural network-based forecasting of energy consumption due to electric lighting in office buildings 
Eleonora D'Andrea, Beatrice Lazzerini (University of Pisa, Italy); Sonia Leon Del Rosario (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) 

Enterprise Energy Management using a Linked Dataspace for Energy Intelligence
Edward Curry, Souleiman Hasan, Sean O'Riain (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) 

12:50 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 16:00 Poster Session (WiP + Demo papers) 
14:00 - 16:00 PhD Forum 

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00 Project Presentations and Panel: Sustainable Computing and Networking 

CoolEmAll - Models and Tools for Optimization of Data Center Energy-efficiency 
Micha vor dem Berge, Wolfgang Christmann (Christmann Informationstechnik + Medien, Germany); Eugen Volk (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany); Stefan Wesner (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Ariel Oleksiak, Tomasz Piontek (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland); Georges Da Costa (University of Toulouse, France); Jean-Marc Pierson (Univerty Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)

The low Energy COnsumption NETworks (ECONET) Project 
Raffaele Bolla (University of Genoa, Italy); Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Italy); Franco R Davoli (University of Genoa, Italy); Lorenzo Di Gregorio (Lantiq Deutschland GmbH, Germany); Luca Giacomello (Telecom Italia, Italy); Chiara Lombardo (University of Genoa, Italy); Giorgio Parladori (Alcatel-Lucent, Italy); Nir Strugo (Mellanox Technologies, Israel); Anastasios Zafeiropoulos (GRNET, Greece)

TREND: Toward Real Energy-efficient Network Design
Marco G. Ajmone Marsan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Stefano Buzzi
(University of Cassino, Italy); Luca Chiaraviglio, Michela Meo (Politecnico di
Torino, Italy); Carmen Guerrero (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain);
Filip Idzikowski (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Yabin Ye,Jorge
Lopez Vizcaino (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany)

Rethinking Cellular System Architecture for Breaking Current Energy Efficiency Limits 
Barth Ulrich (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany); Antonio Capone, Ilario Filippini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Bernd Gloss (Alcatel-Lucent, Germany) 


20:00 - 23:00 Social Dinner


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Day 2 - October 5, 2012
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9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speech 
TITLE: Smart Consumption: the Energy at home Approach
SPEAKER: Fabio Bellifemmine, Director at Energy at home Association, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy

10:00 - 11:00 Project Presentations and Panel: ICT for Sustainability

EcoGrid EU - An Efficient ICT Approach for a Sustainable Power System 
Dieter Gantenbein, Carl Binding,  Bernhard Jansen (IBM Zurich Research
Laboratory, Switzerland); Aditya Kr Mishra (University of Massachusetts
Amherst, USA); Olle Sundstrom (IBM Research GmbH, Switzerland)

Green Move: towards Next Generation Sustainable Smartphone-based Vehicle Sharing
Giovanni Alli; Luciano Baresi, Andrea Bianchessi, Gianpaolo Cugola, Alessandro Margara; Angelo Morzenti, Carlo Ongini, Emanuele Panigati, Matteo Rossi, Sante Rotondi, Sergio Savaresi, Fabio A. Schreiber, Alessandro Sivieri, Letizia Tanca, Edoardo Vannutelli Depoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 12:50 Session 3: Modeling and Analysis of Energy Consumptions in Networks

A Markov model to control heat dissipation in Open Multi-Frequency Green Routers 
Alfio Lombardo, Diego Reforgiato, Vincenzo Riccobene, Giovanni Schembra (University of Catania, Italy)

Energy Efficient PONs with Service Delay Guarantees
Luca Valcarenghi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy); Michele Chincoli (CNIT, Italy); Paolo Monti (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Lena Wosinska (Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden); Piero Castoldi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy) 

Analysis of the overall energy savings achieved by green cell-breathing mechanisms (concise paper) 
Luis Suarez, Loutfi Nuaymi, Jean-Marie Bonnin (Telecom Bretagne, France) 

12:50 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00 Session 4: Advanced Energy Metering Systems

On the Accuracy of Appliance Identification Based on Distributed Load Metering Data 
Andreas Reinhardt, Paul Baumann, Daniel Burgstahler, Matthias Hollick, Hristo
Chonov, Marc Werner, Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany)

RPL Routing Protocol in Advanced Metering Infrastructures: an Analysis of the Unreliability Problems 
Emilio Ancillotti, Raffaele Bruno, Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy) 

15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:45 Session 5: Optimizing Energy Consumptions in Networks

Energy saving heuristics in Backbone Networks 
Rosario G. Garroppo), Stefano Giordano, Gianfranco Nencioni, Michele Pagano,
Maria Grazia Scutella (University of Pisa, Italy) 

Enabling Energy Efficient and Resilient Networks using Dynamic Topologies 
Alexander A. Kist, Abdelnour Aldraho (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) 

Energy aware management of resilient networks with shared protection 
Bernardetta Addis (Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy); Antonio Capone,
Giuliana Carello, Luca Gianoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Brunilde Sanso (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
 
16:45 - 17:00 Closing Session and Best Paper Award Announcement

17:00 - 17:30 Final Coffee Break


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REGISTRATION:

Online registration is available from the conference website (http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/sustainit2012/) until Oct. 2, 2012.

Registration Fees:
  IEEE Member:     EUR 260
  Non IEEE Member: EUR 310
  Student:         EUR 210

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