Title :
A Power Saving Model for Burst Transmission in Energy-Efficient Ethernet
Author :
Herrería-Alonso, Sergio ; Rodríguez-Pérez, Miguel ; Fernández-Veiga, Manuel ; López-García, Cándido
Author_Institution :
Telematics Eng. Dept., Univ. of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
fDate :
5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The last few years have seen a surge in the awareness of energy efficiency in many fields, including the networking community. As an answer towards such demands the IEEE has just released the 802.3az norm that provides a way for Ethernet physical interfaces to enter a low power mode when there is no traffic to send. At the same time there are starting to appear proposals for how to govern the physical interface state between active and low power modes. Among them, the burst transmission method stands out for its simplicity and good performance in several simulation studies. In this paper we provide an accurate analytical model for this method that helps to gain insight in its configuration parameters.
Keywords :
IEEE standards; local area networks; 802.3 norm; Ethernet physical interfaces; active modes; burst transmission method; energy-efficient Ethernet; low power modes; networking community; power saving model; Analytical models; Delay; Energy consumption; Ethernet networks; Load modeling; Network interfaces; Power demand; Energy efficiency; Ethernet; IEEE 802.3az;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOMM.2011.040111.110547
