Title :
How to cut the electric bill in optical WDM networks with time-zones and time-of-use prices
Author :
Çiçek Çavdar;Ayşegül Yayımh;Lena Wosinska
Author_Institution :
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract :
We investigate the benefit of utilizing electric price difference between time intervals of the day for networks covering multiple time-zones. We show that by exploiting this time-and-price variation electric bill can be significantly reduced.
Keywords :
"Routing","Optical fiber networks","Power demand","Energy consumption","Optical switches","Electricity","WDM networks"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
