Green-Oriented Network Management: Towards Symbiosis between Information Systems and Nature

In this paper, we propose the concept and design of Green-oriented Never Management based on Symbiotic Computing to solve the problem of information systems which are facing global-scale environmental changes such as frequent earthquakes of devastating scale and trend of warm temperature. We will integrate the results of R&D we have been investigating such as development of applications based on the Symbiotic Computing, ubiquitous network management, and green ICT for information systems based on the regional experiment. Through these technologies, we will investigate the world´s first ``Green-oriented Network Management´´ that will achieve greening (reduction of CO2 emissions by power saving) of the entire information system. Our research project (Oct., 2011 - March, 2014) has been promoted under the support of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan that had started in October 2011.