Title :
Energy Consumption of the Internet
Author :
Baliga, Jayant ; Hinton, Kerry ; Tucker, Rodney S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC
Abstract :
As concerns about global energy consumption increase, the power consumption of the Internet is a matter of increasing importance. We present a network-based model that estimates Internet power consumption including the core, metro, and access networks.
Keywords :
Internet; power consumption; subscriber loops; Internet; core access networks; energy consumption; metro access networks; power consumption; Bandwidth; Energy consumption; IP networks; Multimedia systems; Peer to peer computing; Power engineering and energy; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Videos; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Internet, 2007 and the 2007 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. COIN-ACOFT 2007. Joint International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-0-9775657-3-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-9775657-3-3
DOI :
10.1109/COINACOFT.2007.4519173