An approach to energy-efficient virtual network embeddings

Network Virtualization is recognized as a key technology for the Future Internet. Energy-efficiency is one of the main challenges in future networking environments. Most algorithms for mapping virtual resources to substrate resources however do not consider energy as a factor for the mapping. In order to evaluate the energy-efficiency of such a mapping, an energy model and appropriate energy-aware metrics are needed. This paper discusses how an algorithm can be modified to take energy-efficiency into account. The modified algorithm is then evaluated, showing that energy-efficiency can be increased with only a minor impact on embedding quality regarding other metrics.