Green Communications in Smart City

Dear Colleagues,

As the vision of smart cities is becoming a reality, the number of sensors, devices, and embedded platforms deployed in our surroundings is rapidly increasing. The communication requirements of various systems and sub-systems in smart cities that are expected to improve our well-being are also increasing. The energy requirements for providing connectivity to billions of new devices and trillions of message exchanges between these devices would contribute significantly towards greenhouse gas emissions. Green communication enabling technologies and solutions is therefore critical for sustainable, smart cities.

Green communications in smart cities is challenging due to massive machine type devices; a diverse range of applications with different qualities of service; traffic requirements & deployment scenarios; a wide range of involved equipment and hardware; numerous energy efficiency tradeoffs; and heterogeneous communication and networking protocols, technologies, & architectures. Through this Special Issue, our aim is to gather manuscripts that describe the most recent advances and developments in order to overcome some of these challenges in this emerging area. Authors are invited to submit high quality papers on topics that include (but are not limited to) the following: 

• Green hardware, devices, and platforms for sustainable smart cities.
• Energy efficiency mechanisms & green communication tradeoffs for diverse applications and deployment scenarios in smart cities.
• Cognitive radio and TVWS in smart city applications.
• Use of 5G technologies, massive MIMO, full duplex relaying, and NOMA for smart city applications.
• Internet of Things (IoT) and massive machine-type communication protocols
• Energy harvesting, wireless power transfer, and renewable technologies for green communications in smart cities.
• Application scenarios, smart grids, intelligent transportation, etc.
• Cross layer optimization and scheduling for green communication in smart cities.
• Physical layer security for green communication technologies.
• Energy-efficient high definition video streaming.
• Novel, energy-efficient communication and networking architectures for smart cities.
• Results of field trials and practical deployments.

Dr. Naveed Ul Hassan
Dr. Chau Yuen
Dr. Xiaoming Chen
Guest Editors

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