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Towards an energy-aware Internet: modeling a cross-layer optimization approach

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The containment of power consumption and the use of alternative green sources of energy are the new main goals of telecommunication operators, to cope with the rising energy costs, the increasingly rigid environmental standards, and the growing power requirements of modern high-performance networking devices. To address these challenges, we envision the necessity of introducing energy-efficiency and energy-awareness in the design, configuration and management of networks, and specifically in the design and implementation of enhanced control-plane protocols to be used in next generation networks. Accordingly, we focus on research and industrial challenges that foster new developments to decrease the carbon footprint while leveraging the capacities of highly dynamic, ultra-high-speed, networking. We critically discuss current approaches, research trends and technological innovations for the coming green era and we outline future perspectives towards new energy-oriented network planning, protocols and algorithms. We also combine all the above elements into a comprehensive energy-oriented network model within the context of a general constrained routing and wavelength assignment problem framework, and analyze and quantify through ILP formulations the savings that can be attained on the next generation networks.

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  1. Dept. d’Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Sergio Ricciardi, Davide Careglio, Germán Santos-Boada & Josep Solé-Pareta

  2. Complesso Universitario Monte S.Angelo, Università di Napoli Federico II, via Cinthia, 80126, Napoli, Italy

    Ugo Fiore

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Seconda Università di Napoli, via Roma 29, 81031, Aversa, CE, Italy

    Francesco Palmieri

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Ricciardi, S., Careglio, D., Santos-Boada, G. et al. Towards an energy-aware Internet: modeling a cross-layer optimization approach. Telecommun Syst 52, 1247–1268 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-011-9645-7

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