Title :
Worldwide energy needs for ICT: The rise of power-aware networking
Author :
Pickavet, Mario ; Vereecken, Willem ; Demeyer, Sofie ; Audenaert, Pieter ; Vermeulen, Brecht ; Develder, Chris ; Colle, Didier ; Dhoedt, Bart ; Demeester, Piet
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol. (INTEC), Ghent Univ. - IBBT, Ghent
Abstract :
As Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is becoming more and more wide-spread and pervasive in our daily life, it is important to get a realistic overview of the worldwide impact of ICT on the environment in general and on energy and electricity needs in particular. This paper reports on a detailed study to estimate this impact today and to predict how this will evolve in the future. From this survey, important conclusions for the future of ICT industry and the Internet will be drawn, and challenges and research directives will be deduced.
Keywords :
Internet; information technology; power consumption; ICT; Information and Communication Technology; Internet; power-aware networking; Base stations; Cathode ray tubes; Communications technology; Energy consumption; IP networks; Internet; Liquid crystal displays; Plasma displays; Switches; TV; electricity; forecast; internet; network concept; power consumption; servers; statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems, 2008. ANTS '08. 2nd International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Mumbai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3600-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3601-9
DOI :
10.1109/ANTS.2008.4937762
