Recent advances of various mobile communication devices, such as smart phones, smart watches, smart glasses, personal wearable communication devices, and wearable healthcare devices, have moved us toward the era of smart society. By leveraging the mobile and wireless networks, these devices can communicate with each other and exchange information to perform the optimal control or display necessary information anytime and anywhere. However, with the rapid development of wireless communication technology, the lack of cooperation among mobile nodes not only affects the quality of communication, but also results in the unbalance of the resource utilization, which further increases the unnecessary energy consumption of the mobile communication devices greatly. Green communication among mobile and wireless networks, such as information sharing, spectrum/energy awareness, routing adaptation, and data caching, enables providing potential benefits for optimizing and balancing the resource usage and hence saves the energy of entirely mobile and wireless networks. Therefore, green communication becomes the utmost important and promising research topic for future mobile and wireless networks.

The aim of this special issue is to motivate researchers to publish their latest research, up-to-date issues, and challenges in the field of green communication for mobile and wireless networks. Proposed submissions should be original and unpublished.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Sensors and networks (mobile ad hoc N/W, Vehicular N/W, etc.)
• Cloud, high speed/performance and green computing
• Green data center network
• Wireless applications, mobile e-commerce, and multimedia
• Wireless network architectures
• High performance network virtualization
• Trust, security, and privacy
• Cooperative, cognitive communication for wireless and mobile networks
• Green multipath communication over wireless and mobile networks
• Wireless and mobile network management and data services
• Cross-layer design and optimization
• Resource tradeoffs and content distribution
• Cooperative caching and sharing
• Clustering, topology control, coverage, and connectivity
• Experimental prototypes and test-beds for mobile information systems
• User behavior perception and modeling
• Context and location-aware mobile wireless services and applications
• Energy-saving and QoE-oriented applications