A survey on environmental backbone design and implementation

Author

Gutierrez, Jose M. ; Riaz, Tahir ; Pedersen, Jens M. ; Madsen, Ole B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst., Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark

fYear

2009

fDate

24-27 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Communication networks are becoming more essential for our daily life and critically important for industry and governments. The intense growth in the backbone traffic implies an increment on the power demands of the network equipment. This power usage has a significant negative effect on the environment. In this paper, some ideas are exposed and discussed in order to make backbone communication network more environmentally friendly. In addition the scheme of a potential model is introduced to be able to evaluate the emissions of a network during its life time.

Keywords

environmental factors; quality of service; radio networks; telecommunication network reliability; QoS; communication networks; environmental backbone design; network equipment; power demands; Electronic mail; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Environmental economics; Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques; Industrial pollution; Optical fiber networks; Power generation economics; Proposals; Spine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, 2009. ISABEL 2009. 2nd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bratislava

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4640-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4641-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISABEL.2009.5373685

Filename

5373685