Title :
Energy efficiency of optical IP protocol suites
Author :
Chunlei Zhang ; Ayre, R. ; Feng, Ming ; Hinton, Kerry ; Vishwanath, Arun
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Lanzhou Jiaotong Univ., Lanzhou, China
Abstract :
An energy efficiency metric is defined for network node protocol suites. The metric is used to provide a comparison of several common suites. Certain protocol suite implementations incur a significant energy efficiency penalty.
Keywords :
IP networks; optical fibre networks; protocols; telecommunication power management; network node protocol suite; optical IP protocol suite; significant energy efficiency penalty; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; IP networks; Measurement; Protocols; Time division multiplexing; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
