Conference Proceedings
Energy and the internet
RS Tucker, J Baliga, R Ayre, K Hinton, WV Sorin
2008 Joint Conference of the Opto Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology Oecc Acoft 2008 | Published : 2008
Abstract
The issue of energy consumption in ICT equipment is attracting increasing attention. This paper presents a model of energy consumption in the Internet and uses this model to estimate how Internet energy consumption will scale with increasing network traffic.