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Authors:
Akram Galal Mahmoud Ibrahim
Mohamed Essam Khedr
Mohamed Shaheen
Keywords: power consumption; green networking; packet processing engine; packet size; edge router; interface power; packet processing power
Abstract:
Power management is a key feature in today's Internet Protocol/ Multi-Protocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) network across all market segments. With the aim of controlling the power consumption in core networks, we consider energy aware devices that are able to reduce their energy requirements by adapting their performance. We focus on packet processing engines, and router interfaces, which generally represent the most energy consumption components of network devices data plane. Our goal is to control both the power configuration of pipelines, as well as to study the effect of the packet size onto the power consumption of an edge router. The results show that the packet size is closely related to the power consumption of the edge router. It is also shown that there is a tradeoff between power consumption and packet latency times. Based on these results, we model the formal power consumption equation of the edge router.
Pages: 23 to 28
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016
Publication date: June 26, 2016
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4006
ISBN: 978-1-61208-482-4
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: from June 26, 2016 to June 30, 2016