DocumentCode
516093
Title
On the energy efficiency of mixed-line-rate networks
Author
Chowdhury, Pulak ; Tornatore, Massimo ; Mukherjee, Biswanath
Author_Institution
Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA
fYear
2010
fDate
21-25 March 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We present an approach to evaluate energy efficiency of mixed-line-rate (MLR) optical networks. A comparative study of energy efficiency of MLR and single-line-rate (SLR) networks shows that MLR is more energy efficient than SLR networks.
Keywords
energy conservation; optical fibre networks; MLR network; SLR network; energy efficiency; mixed-line-rate optical network; single-line-rate optical network; Bandwidth; Costs; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; IP networks; Internet; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Spine; Telecommunication traffic;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-55752-884-1
Type
conf
Filename
5465807
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