1st EAI International Workshop on Energyaware Simulation

Research Article

Simulating Power Saver Network Links in MATLAB

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.24-8-2015.2261118,
        author={H\'{y}seyin Abacı and Gerard Parr and Sally McClean and Adrian Moore and Louise Krug},
        title={Simulating Power Saver Network Links in MATLAB},
        proceedings={1st EAI International Workshop on Energyaware Simulation},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={ENERGY-SIM},
        year={2015},
        month={8},
        keywords={simulation communications network power saving energy qos},
        doi={10.4108/eai.24-8-2015.2261118}
    }
    
  • Hüseyin Abacı
    Gerard Parr
    Sally McClean
    Adrian Moore
    Louise Krug
    Year: 2015
    Simulating Power Saver Network Links in MATLAB
    ENERGY-SIM
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.24-8-2015.2261118
Hüseyin Abacı1,*, Gerard Parr2, Sally McClean2, Adrian Moore2, Louise Krug3
  • 1: Adnan Menderes University
  • 2: University of Ulster
  • 3: British Telecom
*Contact email: huseyin.abaci@adu.edu.tr

Abstract

Network devices, meeting increasing workload demand, are not efficiently power-workload proportionate and consume a considerable amount of power even when the workload (utilisation) is low. Proposed Slowing Mechanism (SM) provides power workload proportionality for a wired network equipment to reduce power consumption. In order to implement the SM we wrote a simulation in MATLAB to analyse the feasibility of the solution. The simulation provides an insight into how a power saving technique can be employed in a network environment and how the parameters of hardware and ICT applications are interlinked with each other. The simulation creates incoming traffic, packet processing, buffer occupancy, packet delay, throughput, and outputs power consumption and power overhead of the SM.