International Workshop on Green Cloud Computing

Call for Papers

Cloud computing provides the computational and storage services at large scale via geographically distributed datacenters at pay as you go, model. With the emergence of the Internet of Things, the cloud and its related paradigms such as cloudlet, fog, edge, and microdata centers have gained a central role for information processing and high volume data storage. The variants of cloud have also addressed the latency and mobility issues by providing the services at the edge of the network. Hence, the novel paradigm of cloud and its flavors have gained expansion and extension from the core to the edge, providing the centralization and high geographic distribution at the same time. The billions of IoT devices are expected to be part of our world in the coming few years. Subsequently, it will significantly increase the processing and storage requirements. As a result, we will have a huge increase in the heat generating storage and processing hubs. Consequently, a great amount of energy production will result in CO2 emissions that will bring uncertainty in environmental changes. The risk of global warming will be much greater than the present. The sea level will rise and the geographic maps will be changed accordingly. Moreover, the energy requirements to power these Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) entities will also be augmented. In short, the consequences of huge energy consumption will put the globe at a huge risk. Hence, it is crucial and the need of the day for the governments, researchers and the industrialists to come forward and agreed upon an agenda for greening the world through ICT and making the ICT green. In this context, this workshop aims to address this big problem by greening the cloud and its variants (fog, edge, cloudlet, micro datacenters). The purpose is to bring the academia, researchers, and industries, working in the discussed domain, on a single platform to come with original, innovative and futuristic sustainable solutions to contribute to a greener world.

The topics of this workshop include but not limited to:

• • Green cloud computing

  • Energy-aware fog, edge computing

  • Environment-friendly datacenters, cloudlets, and micro datacenter frameworks

  • Green and sustainable IoT algorithms

  • Green communication for Cloud-fog-IoT convergence

  • Sustainable health informatics

  • Parallel and distributed algorithms for green data centers

  • Energy-aware scheduling policies for Cloud, fog, edge computing

  • Low power technologies for Cloud-IoT environment

  • A tradeoff analysis of energy-efficiency and Quality of Service (QoS)

  • Blockchain technology and green computing solutions