Yan Zhang

Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC)

Professor, University of Oslo, Norway

Hosted by Feng Ye,

Vice Chair, Americas, IEEE TCGCC

Assistant Professor, University of Dayton, USA

IEEE TCGCC Meeting at GL’2019

Agenda

• Welcome / Round-table introduction• Approval of the Agenda• Approval of meeting minutes of IEEE ICC’19• TCGCC introduction• Executive Committee• Good news• Conference issues

– IEEE GL’19, Green Symposium

• Special Interest Group (SIG) Activities– Dr. Melike Erol-Kantarci, SIG on Green Smart Grid Communications

• IEEE 1932.1 Working Group• TCGCC activities

– Nominations for 2020-2021 Distinguished Lecturers from TCGCC– GLOBECOM 2021 Symposium Chair Candidates

• Conference/Journal activities• Other items• Adjourn

Minutes of TCGCC meeting held at ICC 2019

• Chaired by TCGCC Chair: Yan Zhang

• Time: 15:00-16:00, May 22, 2019; Room: Qingdao, Level 2, Pudong Shangri-La Hotel, Shanghai, China

• Welcome and Introduction

• Approval of the Agenda

• Approval of Meeting Minutes of IEEE GLOBECOM’18

• TCGCC Introduction

• Conferment of TCGCC Awards

• Conference Issues presented by

– Dr. Daniel Ka Chun So, IEEE ICC’19, Green Symposium

• Special Interest Group (SIG) Activities

– Dr. Kaibin Huang, SIG on SIG on Green Smart Grid Communications

– Dr. Kun Wang, SIG on Green Computing and Data Processing

• Conference/Journal activities

• New business items

• Adjourn

IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC) - overview

• Goal: to provide a platform for its members, and the whole research, development, standardization, and service community of energy- and/or resource- efficient and/or environment-sustainable communications, computing, and relevant systems, to interact and exchange technical ideas, to identify major research and development challenges, and to collaborate and investigate solutions in the development of energy-sustainable, resource-saving, and environment-friendly green communications and computing technologies.

• Research areas: addresses greening communications, computing, and relevant systems; and also investigate using communications, computing, and relevant systems to achieve green objectives for the sustainable world.

• More detailed information: https://sites.google.com/site/gcccomsoc/home

IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC) - Membership

• Number of members: 952• Membership

– Anyone can be a member – To obtain the TCGCC membership, you may send a message to tcgcc-

membership@googlegroups.com. In your message, you should show: relevant interests or backgrounds; affiliation with the located country; email address to be used for subscription to the official mailing list

– To maintain your TCGCC membership, the official TCGCC member must subscribe to and maintain in the official mailing list

• Mailing list– You must be an official member of TCGCC in order to be able to send or

post messages to the official mailing list: tcgcc@comsoc.org– To add yourself to or remove yourself from the TCGCC mailing list, please

go to https://sites.google.com/site/gcccomsoc/membership

Executive Committee (April 2019-March 2021)

• Chair: Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway

• Vice-Chair Americas: Feng Ye, University of Dayton, USA

• Vice-Chair Asia/Pacific: Peter Chong, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

• Vice-Chair Europe/Africa: Shahid Mumtaz, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal

• Vice-Chair Standards Activities: RangaRao Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

• Secretary: Kun Wang, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Good News!

Dr. Shahid Mumtaz is awarded the IEEE ComSoCYoung Professor Award, 2019 7

Team TU Delft (led by Dr. R Venkatesha Prasad) won the finals of the Airbus Fly Your Ideas competition

Technical Committee on Green Communications

and Computing was recertified in 2019!

Green Communication Systems and Networks Symposium at IEEE GL’19

• Co-Chair:

Pengbo Si

Beijing University of Technology, China

Kyng Sup Kwak

Inha University, Korea

• Papers submitted: 89; Papers accepted: 38; Acceptance ratio: 42.7%

• 4 oral sessions and 1 interactive session

SIG on Green Smart Grid Communications

• Presented by Dr. Melike (Mel) Erol-Kantarci

Melike (Mel) Erol-KantarciUniversity of Ottawa (Canada)

SIG on Green Smart Grid Communications-Officers

• Chair: Melike Erol-Kantarci, University of Ottawa

• Vice-Chair: Yi Qian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

• Vice-Chair: George Alexandropoulos, University of Athens, Greece

• Advisor: Victor C.M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada

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SIG on Green Smart Grid Communications-Journals

• Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT) – Special issue on Edge Learning for the Internet of Vehicles–Algorithms, Frameworks and Applications – (deadline 30 October 2019)

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) - Series on Green Communications and Networking

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology - Connected Vehicles Series

• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications• IEEE Communications Letters• Elsevier Computer Networks

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SIG on Green Smart Grid Communications-Conferences• TPC Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme

Environments (WISEE) – October 2019, Ottawa, ON

• Track Co-Chair, IEEE CCNC, Wireless Communications: MAC And Cross-Layer Design - January 2020, Las Vegas,

• Track Co-Chair, IEEE PIMRC, MAC and Cross-Layer Design Track – September 2019, Istanbul, Turkey

• Track Co-Chair, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall, Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation Track – November 2019

• Track Co-Chair, IEEE GLOBECOM, Communication Qos, Reliability And Modeling -December 2020, Taiwan

• Tutorial Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) – February 2020, Hawaii

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SIG on Green Smart Grid Communications-Conferences

• SPC Symposium Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2021, 14-18 June at Montreal QC, Canada

• Special session organization:– “Signal Processing for Emerging Wireless Hardware

Architectures” in the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 4-8 May 2020.

– “Signal Processing Advances for Emerging Transceiver Hardware" in the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Cannes, France, 2-5 July 2019.

– “Signal Processing for Emerging Wireless Hardware Architectures” in the IEEE ICASSP, Brighton, UK, 12-17 May 2019

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SIG on Green Smart Grid Communications-Recognitions

• Y. Qian elevated to IEEE Fellow. The citation is “for contributions to wireless communication networks and smart grid communication architectures”.

• G. Alexandropoulos received the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Best Young Professional in Industry Award 2018 in recognition of outstanding contributions to the industry in terms of innovative Communications Research and Development, especially in the area of emerging architectures.

• M. Erol-Kantarci’s appointed as a Canada Research Chair on AI-enabled Next Generation Wireless Networks

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SIG on Green Smart Grid Communications-Book

• Coming up book

– “Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in Smart Cities,” under preparation, CRC Press, 2020.

– More than 15 chapters from valued authors

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IEEE 1932.1 Working Group

WG Officers• Chair

Dr Anwer Al-Dulaimianwer.aldulaimi@ieee.org

• Vice ChairDr Shahid Mumtazdr.shahid.mumtaz@ieee.org

• SecretaryProfessor Qiang Niq.ni@lancaster.ac.uk

• Staff LiasonMr Nicholas Orlandon.orlando@ieee.org

• https://site.ieee.org/sagroups-1932-1/

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Nominations for 2020-2021 Distinguished Lecturers from TCGCC

• A request for nominations (from TCGCC) was sent on July 25, 2019

• Up to 4 candidates can be endorsed by a TC

• Three experts were nominated to be endorsed

– Dr. Shahid Mumtaz

– Dr. Jinsong Wu

– Dr. Baek-Young Choi

• All candidates were recommended to IEEE ComSoc

GLOBECOM 2021 Symposium Chair Candidates

• Call for nomination (including self nomination) was sent on Oct. 21, 2019

• 13 experts were nominated from TCGCC community

• Top three candidates were recommended to the GC’21 conference organization

– Dr. Kun Wang

– Dr. Celimuge Wu

– Dr. Shahid Mumtaz

Conference organization

• IEEE INFOCOM 2020 International Workshop Blockchain for Secure Software Defined Networking in Smart Communities, April 2020, Beijing, China

• IEEE INFOCOM 2020 The International Workshop on Drone-Assisted Smart Backhaul Solutions for 5G and Beyond (DroneCom), April 2020, Beijing, China

• IEEE 6th World Forum on Internet of Things, April 2020, New Orleans, LA

• International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 2020: Multimedia Computing and Communications Symposium, Feb. 2020, Hawaii

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)-Fall 2019 - Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks, Sept. 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii

• IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, July 2019, Atlanta, GA

Publication Activities – special issue organization

• IEEE Wireless Communications, Special Issue on Edge Intelligence for Beyond 5G Networks (due July 15, 2020)

• Future Internet, Special Issue on Energy Internet for Green Cities (due April 20, 2020)

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems, Special Issue on Edge Intelligence of Internet of Vehicles (due March 31, 2020)

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems, Special Issue on Block Chain and Big Data-enabled Intelligent Vehicular Communication (due Jan. 30, 2020)

• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Special Issue on Scalable Computing for Blockchain Systems (due Dec. 1, 2019)

• IEEE Network, Special Issue on Blockchain and AI for Beyond 5G Networks (due Nov. 30, 2019)

• IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Special Issue on Communications for IoT –Connectivity & Networking, (due Oct. 18 2019)

• IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Emerging IoT Systems, (due Oct. 1, 2019)

More items…

• SIG proposals: welcome new SIG proposals, e.g., edge computing, AI (machine learning, deep learning), edge intelligence, blockchain related topics for green communications and computing

• News letter: we will send out a new issue after GC’19. Please send us new material if you have

• Next meeting: IEEE ICC, June, 2020, Dublin, Ireland.

• Other business?

Thank you!Q&A?