DocumentCode
2724271
Title
Energy and the Internet
Author
Tucker, Rodney S. ; Baliga, Jayant ; Ayre, Robert ; Hinton, Kerry ; Sorin, Wayne V.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC
fYear
2008
fDate
7-10 July 2008
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
The issue of energy consumption in ICT equipment is attracting increasing attention. This paper presents a model of energy consumption in the Internet and uses this model to estimate how Internet energy consumption will scale with increasing network traffic.
Keywords
Internet; energy consumption; telecommunication traffic; Internet; energy consumption; network traffic; Energy consumption; High speed optical techniques; IP networks; Internet; Optical fiber networks; Passive optical networks; Power engineering and energy; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the
Conference_Location
Sydney
Print_ISBN
978-0-85825-807-5
Electronic_ISBN
978-0-85825-807-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610507
Filename
4610507
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