Power control and management in the NetFPGA gigabit router

Author

Lombardo, Alfio ; Panarello, Carla ; Reforgiato, Diego ; Schembra, Giovanni

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ing. Elettr., Elettron., e Inf., Univ. of Catania, Catania, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

4-6 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Improving energy efficiency in Internet equipments is becoming an increasingly important research topic. In this paper, we discuss the lesson gained by experimenting a power management mechanism aimed at reducing the power consumption while guaranteeing the Quality of Service (QoS). To this purpose, we drive the clock frequency of an open flexible and high-performance router, the NetFPGA, according to the measured input bit rate. An evaluation of the proposed power management policy is provided.

Keywords

Internet; computer network management; field programmable gate arrays; power control; quality of service; telecommunication control; telecommunication network routing; Internet equipments; NetFPGA gigabit router management; QoS; clock frequency; energy efficiency; high-performance router; open flexible router; power consumption; power control; power management mechanism; power management policy; quality of service; Bit rate; Clocks; Frequency measurement; Power demand; Quality of service; Switches; Green networking; NetFPGA; Power control; Power model; QoS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Network & Mobile Summit (FutureNetw), 2012

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0320-0

Type

conf

Filename

6294188