Green Networking in B5G

6G Flagship presents as part of #6GTalks, in association with Mosa!c Lab and IEEE, sustainable ICT Webinar on Green Networking in B5G.

Communication network traffic grows at 30-40% per year, doubling every two years. Power consumption in equipment tends to scale with data rate so that increased traffic can lead to unsustainable power consumption levels. The digital transformation consumes power in communication networks and data centres (clouds).

This panel will discuss the sustainability issues facing contemporary communications technologies. Then we propose measures for achieving green communication networks, data centres, and edge processing. Hear how ICT can help numerous industries turn green.

Professors Tarik Taleb and Jaafar Elmirghani moderate the webinar.

Jaafar Elmirghani runs through some housekeeping and introduces the topic.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
11:13 Sustainability & Green Networking - how important for mobile operators? - BT perspectives
by Louise Krug, Head of Sustainability Department, BT, UK.

24:11 How can vendors support telco world in achieving sustainability? - HPE perspectives
Marie-Paule Odini, Director & Distinguished Technologist, HPE, France.

37:09 Green networking - do we need to design a new IP for that?
Kiran Makhijani, Principal Engineer, Futurewei, USA.

50:30 ML/AI: is it a sustainability enabler or inhibitor?
Melike Erol-Kantarci, Canada Research Chair & Chief AI\ML Data Scientist , University of Ottawa & Ericsson, Canada.

1:05:39 How can softwarization techniques help in building sustainable telco cloud? Any further challenges will it bring?
Fabrizio Granelli.

1:20:00 Q&A - lead by Professor Tarik Taleb

The webinar was recorded on 14th April, 2022.