Allocating resources greenly: reducing energy consumption or reducing ecological impact?
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking
Energy: a new criteria for performances in large scale distributed systems
PERFORM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IFIP WG 6.3/7.3 international conference on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems: milestones and future challenges
Evaluating energy consumption in CDN servers
ICT-GLOW'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on ICT as Key Technology against Global Warming
Energy estimation for MPI broadcasting algorithms in large scale HPC systems
Proceedings of the 20th European MPI Users' Group Meeting
A survey on techniques for improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Power consumption evaluation of all-optical data center networks
Cluster Computing
A survey on Green communications using Adaptive Link Rate
Cluster Computing
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Precise evaluation of network appliance energy consumption is necessary to accurately model or simulate the power consumption of distributed systems. In this paper we evaluate the influence of traffic onto the consumption of electrical power of four switches found in home and professional environments. First we describe our measurement and data analysis approach, and how our results can be used for estimating the power consumption when knowing the average traffic bandwidth.Then we present the measurement results of two residential switches, and two professional switches. For each type we present regression models and parameters describing their quality. Similar to other works we find that for one of the switches the power consumption actually drops for high traffic loads, while for the others the situation is reverse. Measures justify that during most energy consumption evaluation, network appliance energy cost can be approximated as constant. This work gives information on the possible changes of this cost.