Control Methods to Improve the Sustainability and Energy Efficiency of 5G and Optical Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Current networking and computing infrastructures are facing significant challenges in order to support the requirements of emerging paradigms like the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0 or Tactile Internet, as they impose stringent requirements on key performance indicators like scalability, latency or bandwidth.

The scope of this special issue is related to the key ingredients for providing a solution to that challenge, with ensuring the sustainability and energy efficiency of ICT infrastructures. Thus, topics accepted in the special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Power consumption models and techno-economic models for optical networks and 5G
• Green optical and 5G networks
• Dimensioning, control and deployment of future optical networks.
• Efficient convergence of 5G radio and optical infrastructures
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization in energy efficient networks.
• Network slicing in optical and/or 5G networks
• Artificial intelligence for efficient planning and/or control of optical and/or 5G networks.
• Distributed computing based on Fog/MEC/Cloud hierarchy
• Holistic resource orchestration and management including Fog/MEC/Cloud computing resources.
• Consumption-aware resource management and orchestration

Dr. Ramón J. Durán Barroso
Dr. Ignacio de Miguel
Dr. Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas
Dr. F. Javier Moreno Muro
Guest Editors

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