NOX: towards an operating system for networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Reducing network energy consumption via sleeping and rate-adaptation
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Energy-aware equipment for next-generation networks
CFI '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies
A Power Benchmarking Framework for Network Devices
NETWORKING '09 Proceedings of the 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking Conference
Performance evaluation of energy efficient ethernet
IEEE Communications Letters
Energy aware network operations
INFOCOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE international conference on Computer Communications Workshops
A BitTorrent proxy for Green Internet file sharing: Design and experimental evaluation
Computer Communications
Energy-aware traffic engineering
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking
Sleep and adaptive link rate control for power saving in 10G-EPON systems
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Power efficient traffic grooming in optical WDM networks
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Energy proportional datacenter networks
Proceedings of the 37th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Routing for energy minimization in the speed scaling model
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
A novel WDM-based optical access network with high energy efficiency using elastic OLT
ONDM'10 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Optical network design and modeling
Energy proportionality of an enterprise network
Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Green networking
ElasticTree: saving energy in data center networks
NSDI'10 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
Energy savings in wireless access networks through optimized network management
ISWPC'10 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE international conference on Wireless pervasive computing
Implications of energy efficient Ethernet for hubs and switches
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Energy conservation in multi-tenant networks through power virtualization
HotPower'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Power aware computing and systems
Demystifying 802.11n power consumption
HotPower'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Power aware computing and systems
Opportunistic power saving algorithms for Ethernet devices
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Using coordinated transmission with energy efficient ethernet
NETWORKING'11 Proceedings of the 10th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part I
Efficient photonic coding: a considered revision
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Green networking
Routing for power minimization in the speed scaling model
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Optimal configuration of Energy-Efficient Ethernet
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
An energy-aware dynamic RWA framework for next-generation wavelength-routed networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Towards an energy efficient 10 Gb/s optical ethernet: Performance analysis and viability
Optical Switching and Networking
Merging traffic to save energy in the enterprise
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking
Energy-Efficient network routing with discrete cost functions
TAMC'12 Proceedings of the 9th Annual international conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation
Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programming models for Green Network Design
Computers and Operations Research
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
eBond: energy saving in heterogeneous R.A.I.N
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Future energy systems
State-of-the-art research study for green cloud computing
The Journal of Supercomputing
Towards greener data centers with storage class memory
Future Generation Computer Systems
A survey on Green communications using Adaptive Link Rate
Cluster Computing
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Rate-adaptive weighted fair queueing for energy-aware scheduling
Information Processing Letters
Green Cloud Computing Modelling Methodology
UCC '13 Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM 6th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
Energy Management Through Optimized Routing and Device Powering for Greener Communication Networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Rapidly increasing energy consumption by computing and communications equipment is a significant economic and environmental problem that needs to be addressed. Ethernet network interface controllers (NICs) consume hundreds of millions of US dollars in electricity per year. Most Ethernet links are underutilized and link energy consumption can be reduced by operating at a lower data rate. In this paper, we investigate Adaptive Link Rate (ALR) as a means of reducing the energy consumption of a typical Ethernet link by adaptively varying the link data rate in response to utilization. Policies to determine when to change the link data rate are studied. Simple policies that use output buffer queue length thresholds and fine-grain utilization monitoring are shown to be effective. A Markov model of a state-dependent service rate queue with rate transitions only at service completion is used to evaluate the performance of ALR with respect to mean packet delay, time spent in an energy-saving low data rate, and oscillation of link data rates. Simulation experiments using actual and synthetic traffic traces show that an Ethernet link with ALR can operate at a lower data rate for over 80% of the time yielding significant energy savings with only a very small increase in packet delay.