SAYGreeN Program

08.45 – 09:00 Welcome
Chair: Greta Vallero (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

09:00 – 10:30 Session 1 – Analysis 
Chair: Vincenzo Mancuso (University of Palermo, Italy & IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)

Using Foundation Models to Forecast the Workload of Edge Network Functions for Green Computing, Carlo Puliafito; Antonio Virdis; Carlo Vallati; Nicola Tonellotto; Marco Galante; Giuseppe Anastasi; Enzo Mingozzi; Marcello Cucurachi; Leonardo Martorana

This Is Taking Too Long – Investigating Time as a Proxy for Energy Consumption of LLMs, Lars Krupp; Daniel Geißler; Francisco Miguel Calatrava Nicolás; Vishal Banwari; Paul Lukowicz; Jakob Karolus

Strategic Collaborative Uplink for Information Freshness in Rechargeable IoT Devices, Alessandro Buratto; Armir Bujari; Leonardo Badia

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Keynote 1
From Applied Mathematics to Automated Heuristic Design: Engineering Sustainable and Explainable 6G Networks
Livia Chatzieleftheriou

12:00 – 12:30 Session 2 – Resource Management 1
Chair: Daniela Renga (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Reinforcement Learning Scheduler for Solar-Powered Edge Devices, Luca Giovannesi; Paolo   Russo; Roberto Beraldi

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00 Keynote 2
Chair: Daniela Renga (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Decentralized Intelligence: towards sustainable machine learning
Paolo Dini

15:00 – 15:30 Session 3 – Resource Management 2
Chair: Vincenzo Mancuso (University of Palermo, Italy & IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)

Dynamic Cooperative Energy and Coverage Management for V2G-Enhanced RAN Resilience, Mohammad Reza Jokar; Aurora Martiny; Michela Meo

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 Session 4 – Machine Learning
Chair: Vincenzo Mancuso (University of Palermo, Italy & IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)

A deep reinforcement learning agent for distributed task offloading based on Graph Neural Networks, Manuel Dileo; Christian Quadri

Carbon-Aware and Latency-Efficient Scheduling for Geo-Distributed Federated Learning, Sogand Sadrhaghighi; Edward Michael Rochester

17:00 – 17:10 Closing Remarks and Best Paper Award Announcement
Chair: Daniela Renga (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)