Title :
Evaluating the energy-awareness of future Internet devices
Author :
Bolla, Raffaele ; Bruschi, Roberto ; Lombardo, Chiara ; Suino, Diego
Author_Institution :
DIST, Univ. of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Abstract :
Advanced power management capabilities have been proposed to be included into next-generation green network devices in order to modulate their energy requirements according to the workload. The clear side effect of enabling these new capabilities consists in a performance level reduction of network devices. Starting from some existing benchmarking standards for evaluating energy-efficiency, namely ECR and ATIS-060015, this contribution is devoted to determining a set of parameters, and methodologies that can be applied to correctly and precisely evaluate the tradeoff between energy consumption and network performance. Some experimental results obtained with the proposed indexes and methodologies, as well as a green SW router prototype have been provided.
Keywords :
Internet; benchmark testing; energy conservation; energy consumption; next generation networks; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; ATIS-060015; ECR; Internet device; benchmarking standard; energy awareness; energy consumption; energy efficiency; energy requirement; green SW router prototype; network performance; next generation green network device reduction; power management capability; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Indexes; Performance evaluation; Power demand; Standards; Throughput; benchmarking methodologies; energy-efficiency evaluation; green networking;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2011 IEEE 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cartagena
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8454-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8455-3
DOI :
10.1109/HPSR.2011.5986001
