Greening of the internet

By Maruti Gupta, Suresh Singh. Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, 2003

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In this paper we examine the somewhat controversial subject of energy consumption of networking devices in the Internet, motivated by data collected by the U.S. Department of Commerce. We discuss the impact on network protocols of saving energy by putting network interfaces and other router & switch components to sleep. Using sample packet traces, we first show that it is indeed reasonable to do this and then we discuss the changes that may need to be made to current Internet protocols to support a more aggressive strategy for sleeping. Since this is a position paper, we do not present results but rather suggest interesting directions for core networking research. The impact of saving energy is huge, particularly in the developing world where energy is a precious resource whose scarcity hinders widespread Internet deployment.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Reducing Power Consumption in Backbone Networks (2009, background): “The study of power-saving network devices has been introduced over these years, starting from the pioneering work of [5].”
Power consumption in telecommunication networks: overview and reduction strategies (2011, background): “Important work has already been demonstrated in [5] where the authors suggest the introduction of sleep modes and in [6] which suggests component optimization and power management as power saving strategies.”
Reducing the Energy Consumption of Ethernet with Adaptive Link Rate (ALR) (2008, background): “In [18], it was shown that the energy efficiency of the wired Internet is less than that of a typical 802.”
Energy-aware resource allocation heuristics for efficient management of data centers for Cloud computing (2012, background): “[17] have suggested putting network interfaces, links, switches and routers into sleep modes when they are idle in order to save the energy consumed by the Internet backbone and consumers.”
Power Awareness in Network Design and Routing (2008, background): “In [7] Gupta and Singh suggest the idea of energy conservation in Internet systems.”
ElasticTree: Saving Energy in Data Center Networks (2010, background): “[17] were amongst the earliest researchers to advocate conserving energy in networks.”
Energy Consumption in Optical IP Networks (2009, background): “Energy consumption is becoming a key environmental, social and political issue [1].”
Energy Efficiency in the Future Internet: A Survey of Existing Approaches and Trends in Energy-Aware Fixed Network Infrastructures (2011, methodology): “Gupta and Singh [59] identified the problem of excessive energy consumption in the Internet, by showing that the energy efficiency of the wired Internet is less than that of a typical 802.11 wireless LAN.”
Minimizing ISP Network Energy Cost: Formulation and Solutions (2012, background): “We do not focus on reducing the power consumption of each device, but rather we aim at controlling the whole network, so as to .nd the minimum set of devices that must be used to meet the actual traf.c demand.”
Greening the internet with nano data centers (2009, background): “At a larger scale, one of the early works to discuss aggregate network consumption was a 2004 position paper on “Greening of the Internet” [18] that coined the idea of energy efficiency of Internet components and protocols.”
A Power Benchmarking Framework for Network Devices (2009, background): “06 Terra Watt hours, which translates to around 1 billion US dollars per year [2], thereby presenting a strong case for reducing the energy consumed by networking devices such as hubs, access points, switches and routers.”
On the design of green reconfigurable router toward energy efficient internet (2011, background): “Some pioneering exploitations of saving energy across the Internet are discussed in [2], which investigated network protocol design with energy-saving considerations and device power consumption optimization techniques against expected performance.”
A Survey of Green Networking Research (2010, methodology): “…works adopt the same evaluation technique, the performance of the different approaches can rarely be compared: consider for instance the case of trace-driven evaluatio, which has been used in [19], [25], [20], [21], [22], [29], [27] and where each approach has been tested using different inputs.”
Energy-Efficient Base-Stations Sleep-Mode Techniques in Green Cellular Networks: A Survey (2015, background): “…consumption has been a major concern and many studies on energy saving strategies in networking and telecommunication sectors have been published after the ﬁrst work concerning the energy issue in the mainstream networking area published in 2003, which refers to the greening of the Internet [160].”
Resource management for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud computing: A survey (2014, background): “Gupta and Singh (2009) suggest putting network interfaces, links, switches and routers into sleep modes when they are idle in order to save the energy consumed by the Internet backbone and consumers.”
Reducing Network Energy Consumption via Sleeping and Rate-Adaptation (2008, background): “For networks that employ timer-driven sleeping, packet bursts would need to include a marker denoting the end of burst and notifying the router of when it should expect the next burst on that interface.”