A GMPLS-based Power Resource Reservation System toward Energy-on-Demand Home Networking

Recently, many research works on reducing energy consumption using information and communication technology (ICT) have done. In those works, however, electrical power saving in home heavily relies on human effort; we can expect little performance since it can save power only when living people have awareness. To overcome this problem, we have been studied energy-on-demand home networking, based on the concept of informatization of Energy (i-energy). Each electric current from a power source to a powered device is classified into several colored classes by the quality (Power Coloring) and the route is pinned on a path. In this paper a power resource reservation system is proposed using GMPLS framework. We have focused on the similarity between physical transmission methods for power coloring and switching technologies in GMPLS. MPLS is applied to a control mechanism of various physical transmission systems, such as power packets or power circuit switching, and propose a power resource reservation system based on QoS routing protocols for the Internet, RSVP-TE and OSPF-TE.