Green in-building networks: The future convergence of green, optical and wireless technologies

Author

Kazovsky, Leonid G. ; Ayhan, Tuba ; Gowda, Apurva S. ; Dhaini, Ahmad R. ; Ng´oma, Anthony ; Vetter, Peter

Author_Institution

Photonics & Networking Res. Lab., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The global network energy consumption is increasing at an alarming rate due to proliferation of the Internet and its increasing bandwidth-intensive applications. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient Access/In-Building architecture that features energy efficient customer premises equipment (CPE) design in conjunction with an energy efficient access network protocol, and in-building optical/wireless integration using Radio-over-Fiber. We analyze the energy consumption of the proposed architecture and show that the use of these technologies could lead to up to 50% energy savings compared to the architectures that employ legacy technologies.

Keywords

Internet; access protocols; green computing; optical fibre subscriber loops; radio access networks; radio-over-fibre; CPE; Internet proliferation; bandwidth-intensive applications; customer premises equipment design; energy efficient access architecture; energy efficient access network protocol; energy efficient in-building architecture; global network energy consumption; green in-building networks; green technologies; optical technologies; radio-over-fiber; wireless technologies; Computer architecture; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Green products; Integrated optics; Passive optical networks; Energy efficiency; Networking; Optical-wireless networks; Radio-over-Fiber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cartagena

ISSN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602674

Filename

6602674