Rihab Maaloul, Lamia Chaari Fourati, and Bernard Cousin (2014)
Study of Energy Saving in Carrier-Ethernet Networks
In: Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulations (AIMS 2014), edited by IEEE, Madrid, Spain.
Energy saving is a really interesting topic in
today&\acute;is networks. Indeed Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) systems are energy greedy, they require
more and more energy and as energy is more and more
expensive we seek to save it. Accordingly, energy saving
has recently received considerable attention, as a
promising approach for delivering ICT services with
environmentally conscious use of technology by implementing
energy aware strategies in networks infrastructures which
lead to improve network resources utilization. Thus this
paper addresses the issue of energy consumption in telecom
networks and especially in Carrier-Ethernet networks. We
review and describe relevant works currently proposed for
energy-efficient operation of wired network infrastructure.
Besides surveying some of the different technical issues
that researchers are currently facing to reduce the energy
consumption in networking, this paper identifies some of
the remaining key research challenges that arise when such
energy-saving techniques are extended for use in Carrier
Ethernet networks