Title :
Enabling the TCP segmentation offload to save energy
Author :
Bolla, Raffaele ; Bruschi, Roberto ; Jaramillo Ortiz, Olga Maria ; Rapuzzi, Riccardo
Author_Institution :
DITEN, Univ. of Genova, Genoa, Italy
Abstract :
The aim of this paper is to experimentally evaluate how the enabling of the TCP segmentation offload impacts on the energy consumption of a networked device. To this purpose, we set up a complete testbed that allowed us to perform measurements on energy on a state-of-the-art PC with power management capabilities, and the Linux operating system. From the results we observed that the decrease of the TCP/IP processing in the host CPU allows obtaining an important reduction of the CPU energy consumption.
Keywords :
Linux; transport protocols; CPU energy consumption; Linux operating system; TCP segmentation offload; TCP-IP processing; energy saving; power management capabilities; Energy consumption; Energy measurement; Internet; Linux; Program processors; Servers; Testing; energy consumption; green-networking; linux; tcp; tcp segmentation offload;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Communications - Green ICT (TIWDC), 2013 24th Tyrrhenian International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Genoa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0753-3
DOI :
10.1109/TIWDC.2013.6664194
