Energy storage for IP over WDM networks with renewable energy

Author

Abji, Nadeem ; Tizghadam, Ali ; Leon-Garcia, Alberto

fYear

2014

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We consider the dynamic selection of lightpaths and optical fiber topology to minimize energy consumption in an optical transport network with renewable energy. We assess the performance and energy consumption profiles of networks that leverage energy storage in conjunction with renewable energy. We demonstrate that the use of energy storage decouples the network planning and traffic engineering problem from the renewable energy availability. This reduces path lengths, lightpath reconfigurations and the number of router ports required.

Keywords

IP networks; energy storage; optical fibre networks; power consumption; renewable energy sources; telecommunication network planning; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication power management; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; IP network; WDM Networks; energy consumption minimization; energy storage; lightpath reconfigurations; lightpaths dynamic selection; network planning; optical fiber topology; optical transport network; path lengths reduction; renewable energy; router ports; traffic engineering problem; Availability; Energy consumption; Energy storage; Ports (Computers); Renewable energy sources; Solar energy; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Teletraffic Congress (ITC), 2014 26th International

Conference_Location

Karlskrona

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITC.2014.6932960

Filename

6932960