Green communications and computing networks [Series Editorial]

The concept of green information and communications technologies (ICT) is relevant to both environmental sustainability and ICT. Green ICT is an interdisciplinary field relevant to a number of areas and topics, such as information systems, computer science and technologies, communications and networking, power and energy systems, electronics, environmental and civil engineering, industrial engineering and project management, social sciences, and so on. The green ICT could be considered a coined-term from two highly overlapped terms, green communications [1] and green computing [2]. Basically, two mainstream ideas may be addressed in green ICT, i.e., greening ICT and ICT for green objectives. Even if the field of green ICT has been receiving more and more attentions in research communities as well as industrial, governmental, and international organizations [1�5], more and more technical investigations and applications are still expected due to the relevant long term concerns and challenges. In early 2015, the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC), IEEE Research Project on Vision for Green ICT Standardizations, and IEEE Technical SubCommittee on Big Data (TSCBD) jointly initialized the efforts of the first IEEE International Workshop on Green Standardization and Industry Issues for ICT and Relevant Technologies (GSICT), which will be held in conjunction with the 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globe-com 2015), and the motivation of the efforts is to promote more relevant activities, especially standardization, towards green objectives in industry. Surely, the IEEE Series on Green Communications and Computing Networks can expect more submissions on the relevant industry issues and standardization activities in the future.