3rd International ICST Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications

Research Article

Optimisation of Power Consumption in Wired Packet Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_45,
        author={Erol Gelenbe and Simone Silvestri},
        title={Optimisation of Power Consumption in Wired Packet Networks},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications},
        proceedings_a={AAA-IDEA},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_45}
    }
    
  • Erol Gelenbe
    Simone Silvestri
    Year: 2012
    Optimisation of Power Consumption in Wired Packet Networks
    AAA-IDEA
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_45
Erol Gelenbe1,*, Simone Silvestri2,*
  • 1: Imperial College
  • 2: Sapienza University of Rome
*Contact email: e.gelenbe@imperial.ac.uk, simone.silvestri@di.uniroma1.it

Abstract

Over 500 million host computers, three billion PCs and mobile devices consume over a billion kilowatts of electricity. As part of this “system” computer networks consume an increasing amount of energy, and help reduce energy expenditure from other sources through E-Work, E-Commerce and E-Learning. Traditionally, network design seeks to minimise network cost and maximise quality of service (QoS). This paper examines some approaches for dynamically managing wired packet networks to minimise energy consumption while meeting users’ QoS needs, by automatically turning link drivers and/or routers on/off in response to changes in network load.