Energy efficiency and sustainability are becoming increasingly important in information and communication technology. A key challenge is balancing availability, resilience, programmability, and energy efficiency in networks and services, which requires reliable monitoring, metrics, and benchmarking based on well-defined KPIs. The GreenNet Workshop focuses on emerging challenges and concepts for sustainable networked services, including sustainability across all network layers in light of growing AI/ML use, new access technologies, edge computing, and increasing demand for distributed services, intelligence, computation and data transport.
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of up to 7 pages in IEEE 2-column format (written in English). Only original papers not published or submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered for the workshop.
See https://netsoft2026.ieee-netsoft.org/ which includes author and submission guidelines.
Topics of Interest
1. Models, Simulations, Measurements of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Solutions
x Modeling, simulation, measurement for performance, power, and sustainability assessment
x Holistic views across the full stack (from access to data center)
x Digital twins for improving energy consumption and efficiency
x Reliable, resilient, and sustainable networks
2. Network and Device Management
x Network and device management and control mechanisms
x APIs for power management interfaces
x Scheduling, timing, and orchestration of sleep modes in different network parts
x Decentralized energy management
x Power-aware network slicing and orchestration
x Standardization efforts (metrics, KPIs, lifecycle, carbon considerations)
3. Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Optimization
x Optimization of energy, performance, resilience, and sustainability
x Architectural solutions toward sustainable networks
x Software-driven energy reduction, self-x, zero-touch, network automatization
x Role of edge in sustainable infrastructure: optimized placement of resources
x Energy efficiency of web3 decentralized network
4. Sustainable Access and Communication Technologies
x Energy efficiency in 5G, 6G, and beyond
x Sustainability oriented wireless and wired access network improvements
x Energy-efficient RANs and O-RAN, including effects of non-terrestrial networks
x Multi-technology access and multipath support (ATSS)
x Heterogeneous cell coverage (macro, micro, pico, femto)
x Energy-saving Internet protocols
x Delay-tolerant networking
x Distributed processing (cloud, edge, fog, serverless); efficiency in data centers
x Sustainable sensor and industrial automation networks
x Use of renewable energy/energy harvesting in network infrastructure and devices
x Carbon footprint reduction through lifecycle assessment of devices
x Lightweight IoT protocols and green sensing
5. AI/ML for Energy Efficiency
x AI/ML for network management and optimization of energy consumption
x AI/ML in slicing, fog/cloud/MEC, virtualization, automation, and adaptation
x Energy consumption reduction of AI/ML and LLM training, inference, and data center operations
x Evaluation of energy requirements of AI/ML algorithms
x AI-RAN Orchestration for performance and energy trade-offs