Towards Green ICT

By: Ramjee Prasad and Shingo Ohmori and Dina Šimunic and Dina Šimunić and L. E. Mägi and M. G. Gustafsson and A. Kramers and Hideaki Imaizumi and Hiroyuki Morikawa and Takeshi Mizuike and Keizo Sugiyama and Kishore Ramareddy and Parag Pruthi and Knud Erik Skouby and Iwona Windekilde and Christoph Spiegel and Sebastian Rickers and Peter Jung and Woojin Shim and Rami Lee and Jae Hwang Yu and Rasmus Krigslund and Petar Popovski and Iskra Dukovska-Popovska and Gert F. Pedersen and Boris Manev and Rasmus Hjorth Nielsen and Albena Mihovska and Ole Brun Madsen and Alberto Nannarelli and Nobuo Nakajima and L. Jorguseski and R. Litjens and J. Oostveen and H. Zhang and John Rohde and Sune Wolff and Thomas Skjødeberg Toftegaard and Peter Gorm Larsen and Kenneth Lausdahl and Augusto Ribeiro and Poul Ejnar Rovsing and Peter Koch and Masahide Sasaki and Atsushi Waseda and Masahiro Takeoka and Mikio Fujiwara and Hidema Tanaka and Masahiro Umehira and Michitaka Kameyama and Masanori Hariyama and Hideaki Furukawa and Naoya Wada and Xiaohua Lian and Homayoun Nikookar and Leo P. Ligthart and Peter Lindgren and Yariv Taran and Kristin Saughaug and Subria Clemensen

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Synopsis: ICT is playing an increasingly important role in both business and individual's private life. It has increased international interconnectedness and speed up the process of globalization. But on the other side the total energy consumption by the communication and networking devices and the relevant global CO emission is increasing exponentially. ICT has, in many ways, a vital role to play. It accounts for about two percent of global CO emissions. Telecommunications applications can have a direct, tangible impact on lowering greenhouse gas emissions, power consumption, and achieve efficient recycling of equipment waste.This book is the outcome of the special session on Green Communications at 'The 12th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications' (WPMC) held in September '09 in Sendai, Japan. To the best of the editors' knowledge this is the first book on the Green Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and can be considered a milestone and a key-tool aimed at driving the industrial, scientific and academic efforts of the international community to guarantee a greener future to the whole planet.