Title :
Energy consumption in IP networks
Author :
Tucker, Rodney S. ; Baliga, Jayant ; Ayre, Robert ; Hinton, Kerry ; Sorin, Wayne V.
Author_Institution :
ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN) and National ICT Australia Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Abstract :
A model of energy consumption in IP networks is used to estimate the energy consumption of the public Internet. Today’s Internet uses less than 1% of the available electricity supply. However, network energy consumption could grow substantially as access rates increase.
Keywords :
Energy consumption; High speed optical techniques; IP networks; Internet; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Passive optical networks; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels, Belgium
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729202
