A Brief Journey through
“Green Communications
and Networking”
F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC,
Canada
Introduction
As concerns about climate change, rising fossil fuel prices and energy security
increase, companies and governments around the world are committing great
efforts to develop new technologies for the green strategies addressing climate
change globally and facilitating low greenhouse gas (GHG) development. Cur-
rently, the GHG emissions produced by the Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) industry alone are said to be equivalent to the GHG emis-
sions of the entire aviation industry. It ...