The goal of the TSCGCC (Technical Subcommittee on Green Communications and Computing), IEEE Communications Society,  is 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-maintainable communications and computing, to interact and exchange technical ideas, to identify major R&D challenges, and to collaborate and investigate solutions in the development of energy-sustainable, resource-saving, and environment-friendly green communications and computing technologies.

The technical issues addressed by the subcommittee include all aspects of green communications and computing related research and development issues, e.g., green fixed access communications and networking, green optical communications and networking, green wireless access networks，energy-efficient cellular base stations, green circuits, devices and terminals, hierarchical and distributed techniques for energy distribution and management, novel network concepts and architectures lowering the overall footprint of ICT (e.g., compressed sensing, network coding and interference alignment, etc. ),  green ad hoc and sensor networks, green cognitive radio, energy-efficient smart home networking, smart grid, energy-sustainable cloud computing, electromagnetic pollution mitigation, advanced signal processing techniques for energy-efficient transmission systems, resource-efficient cross-layer optimization methods, and opportunistic spectrum sharing without causing harmful interference pollution, etc. This sub-committee will also carry out assessment of the environment footprint of individual communication devices, measurements, monitoring, trials, prototype and test-beds implementations, standardization activities, and economic “greener” initiatives.