• 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