Worldwide energy needs for ICT: The rise of power-aware networking

Author

Pickavet, Mario ; Vereecken, Willem ; Demeyer, Sofie ; Audenaert, Pieter ; Vermeulen, Brecht ; Develder, Chris ; Colle, Didier ; Dhoedt, Bart ; Demeester, Piet

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol. (INTEC), Ghent Univ. - IBBT, Ghent

fYear

2008

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

As Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is becoming more and more wide-spread and pervasive in our daily life, it is important to get a realistic overview of the worldwide impact of ICT on the environment in general and on energy and electricity needs in particular. This paper reports on a detailed study to estimate this impact today and to predict how this will evolve in the future. From this survey, important conclusions for the future of ICT industry and the Internet will be drawn, and challenges and research directives will be deduced.

Keywords

Internet; information technology; power consumption; ICT; Information and Communication Technology; Internet; power-aware networking; Base stations; Cathode ray tubes; Communications technology; Energy consumption; IP networks; Internet; Liquid crystal displays; Plasma displays; Switches; TV; electricity; forecast; internet; network concept; power consumption; servers; statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems, 2008. ANTS '08. 2nd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Mumbai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3600-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3601-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTS.2008.4937762

Filename

4937762