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Special Session: Ecological Home Network Recent advancement of home appliances and various electronic devices will make the home network much more sophisticated and complicated. In near future, it is necessary to design home networks from smart and elaborated viewpoints so as to make it more useful in daily life. One of the important viewpoints is the ecology. Ecology is directly related to the environment problems, but it also means to make many relevant things harmonized and integrated so that the important issues can be resolved in a coordinated manner. Ecology also means to give a strong satisfaction for users of the relevant environment, and it is related to the usability of the system. In order to realize ecological home networks, several viewpoints should be considered in their design. Of course, the first one is energy saving, and it is possible to realize the energy management of home networks like the smart grid systems of the public power supply systems. Even if the energy consumption of home networks is much smaller than the public power supply, it is important to introduce such a consideration. In order to deal with some high level requirements for home network design, it is necessary to increase the home network maintainability, reliability, integrity and so on. Ecological design may request frequent reorganization of network structure, and it is useful to realize the easiness of upgrade and degradation of home networks. Ecological home network should support the human life satisfaction, and several such applications include health care, medical care, security protection, efficient management for energy and resource consumption, and it should also support personal happy life through easy communication with community people, high level entertainment, learning and so on. Ecological home network can bring about the real useful network for everyone, and easy network for everyone. The goal of this special session is to provide a forum for engineers, architects, and researchers to share knowledge and innovation in ecological home network related services and technologies. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include (but are not limited to) the following: - Concept of ecological home network Submission Instructions Session Organizers
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