Panel Description
Proponent’s Name
Luis M. Correia
Proponent’s Institution
IST/IT – Technical University of Lisbon.
Proponent’s Email
luis.correia@lx.it.pt
Panel Title
How to make Mobile Cellular Communications even Greener?
Date/time-slot
Wednesday, Sep. 14th, 10h30/12h00
Room
Frontenac
Motivation and Background
It is expected that the volume of data transmitted in mobile cellular networks will double each year
in the next decade, which means that the energy consumption of these networks will also increase a
lot. On the one hand, this increase puts obvious concerns, but on the other, it also means that there
will be many other sectors reducing their CO2 footprint via an increased usage of ICT in general, and
of mobile and wireless communications in particular. Still, the pressure to reduce the energy
consumption in communications networks is already a current challenge, being addressed by many
people in industry and academia, namely because it can contribute to reduce the cost of running a
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network. New technologies and solutions are being explored, and inputs to standards are already a
reality. An overall perspective is required, ranging from equipment in base stations to network
protocols, and encompassing radio resource management and network architectures, among many
other areas. Furthermore, it may happen that the increase of user data rates or quality of experience
may lead to an effective increase in energy consumption, which needs to be dealt with in a proper
perspective. This panel will address these issues, tackling both near- and long-term views of the
matter.
Questions
Which are the main system/network items responsible for energy consumption?
Which are the main system/network items to be addressed for the increase of energy efficiency?
Which are the main service/application areas that can make use of mobile & wireless
communications for the global increase of energy efficiency?
Which are the most promising trends concerning the increase of energy efficiency?
Which are the realistic goals that can be achieved in 2020 concerning the increase of energy
efficiency?
Structure
The organiser/chair has established a few questions to be addressed by the participants.
The chair gives a 10 minutes presentation at the beginning of the panel, to introduce the topic.
Participants should address the questions posed, in a 10 minutes presentation each.
With this scheme, there will be enough time for discussion in the panel.
Participants
The panel is composed of (see CVs at the end of the document):
Chair: Luis M. Correia (Professor, IST/IT – Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal).
Mohamed Cheriet (Professor, École de Technologie Supérieure – University of Quebec,
Montreal, Canada)
Magnus Olsson (EARTH Project Technical Manager, Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden)
Matti Latva-aho (Professor, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland)
Roberto Fantini (Researcher, Telecom Italia Labs., Torino, Italy)
Participants CVs
Luis M. Correia received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST-TUL (Technical
University of Lisbon), where he is currently a Professor with his work focused in Wireless/Mobile
Communications. He has been active in various research projects within the European frameworks
of RACE, ACTS, IST, ICT and COST (where he also served as evaluator and auditor), having
coordinated two COST projects, and taken leadership responsibilities at the workpackage and task
levels in various ones. He has edited 4 books, and authored more than 300 papers. He was part of
the COST Domain Committee on ICT. He was the Chairman of the Technical Programme Committee
of several conferences, namely PIMRC’2002. He is part of the Expert Advisory Group and of the
Steering Board of the European Net!Works platform, and the Chairman of its Working Group on
Applications.
Mohamed Cheriet received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of
Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in 1985 and 1988, respectively. Since 1992, he has been a professor
in the Automation Engineering department at the École de Technologie Supérieure (University of
Quebec), Montreal, and was appointed full Professor there in 1998. He is the founder and director
of Synchromedia which targets multimedia communication in telepresence applications.
Computational intelligence is one of the many areas of his expertise that benefits the Consortium,
providing Synchromedia’s expertise in advanced open overlay self-scaling network architecture
based on distributed and virtualized resources and the grid computing paradigm. He is the Lead of
the GreenStar Network project, the world’s first initiative for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
arising from information and communication technology services. He is a senior member of the
IEEE, and the founder and former Chair of the IEEE Montreal Chapter of Computational Intelligent
Systems.
Magnus Olsson received his M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in 2000.
Since 2000 he has been with Ericsson AB, Stockholm, Sweden, working on radio access research,
where he currently holds a Senior Researcher position. His research interests are especially on
advanced antenna systems, interference rejection techniques, and energy efficiency of radio
networks. He has authored and co-authored over 20 international journal and conference papers,
and has been involved in various European research projects such as WINNER, WINNER II, WINNER+
and EARTH. Since August 2011 he is the Technical Manager of the EARTH project.
Roberto Fantini received the Laurea Degree (cum laude) at Politecnico di Torino in 2001. After his
thesis he joined CERCOM (Center for Multimedia Wireless Communications), a research center
hosted by Politecnico di Torino, working on the definition of channel models for stratospheric
platforms in the HeliNet project. He moved to TILAB, Telecom Italia research center, in 2002, where
is research interest focused on the analysis through simulations and trials of the UMTS system and
the following evolutions in HSPA and HSPA+. In 2010 he started working on radio resource
management for LTE and LTE Advanced. He is currently part of two European projects: ARTIST4G
and EARTH, where he is investigating the energy efficiency of mobile networks enhanced with Relay
Nodes.
Matti Latva-aho was born in Kuivaniemi, Finland in 1968. He received the M.Sc., Lic.Tech. and Dr.
Tech (Hons.) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland in 1992, 1996
and 1998, respectively. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Research Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones,
Oulu, Finland. During the years 1994 - 1998 he was a Research Scientist at Telecommunication
Laboratory and Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu. Prof. Latva-aho was
Director of Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu during the years 19982006. Currently he is the Chair of the Department of Communications Engineering and Professor of
Digital Transmission Techniques at the University of Oulu.