Title :
Energy and the Internet
Author :
Tucker, Rodney S. ; Baliga, Jayant ; Ayre, Robert ; Hinton, Kerry ; Sorin, Wayne V.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC
Abstract :
The issue of energy consumption in ICT equipment is attracting increasing attention. This paper presents a model of energy consumption in the Internet and uses this model to estimate how Internet energy consumption will scale with increasing network traffic.
Keywords :
Internet; energy consumption; telecommunication traffic; Internet; energy consumption; network traffic; Energy consumption; High speed optical techniques; IP networks; Internet; Optical fiber networks; Passive optical networks; Power engineering and energy; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the
Conference_Location :
Sydney
Print_ISBN :
978-0-85825-807-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-85825-807-5
DOI :
10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610507
