Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Performance evaluation of energy efficient ethernet
IEEE Communications Letters
Burst Transmission for Energy-Efficient Ethernet
IEEE Internet Computing
High performance Gigabit Ethernet switches for DAQ systems
RTC'05 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE-NPSS conference on Real time
Receive side coalescing for accelerating TCP/IP processing
HiPC'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on High Performance Computing
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
Future Generation Computer Systems
On the impact of the TCP acknowledgement frequency on energy efficient ethernet performance
NETWORKING'11 Proceedings of the IFIP TC 6th international conference on Networking
Analyzing local strategies for energy-efficient networking
NETWORKING'11 Proceedings of the IFIP TC 6th international conference on Networking
Optimal configuration of Energy-Efficient Ethernet
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Network pruning for energy saving in the Internet
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Value optimization of survivable multilayer IP/MPLS-over-WSON networks
Photonic Network Communications
Performance analysis of Energy Efficient Ethernet on video streaming servers
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Future energy systems
eBond: energy saving in heterogeneous R.A.I.N
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Future energy systems
A survey on techniques for improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A survey on Green communications using Adaptive Link Rate
Cluster Computing
Energy Management Through Optimized Routing and Device Powering for Greener Communication Networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Ethernet is the dominant wireline communications technology for LANs with over 1 billion interfaces installed in the U.S. and over 3 billion worldwide. In 2006 the IEEE 802.3 Working Group started an effort to improve the energy efficiency of Ethernet. This effort became IEEE P802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) resulting in IEEE Std 802.3az-2010, which was approved September 30, 2010. EEE uses a Low Power Idle mode to reduce the energy consumption of a link when no packets are being sent. In this article, we describe the development of the EEE standard and how energy savings resulting from the adoption of EEE may exceed $400 million per year in the U.S. alone (and over $1 billion worldwide). We also present results from a simulation-based performance evaluation showing how packet coalescing can be used to improve the energy efficiency of EEE. Our results show that packet coalescing can significantly improve energy efficiency while keeping absolute packet delays to tolerable bounds. We are aware that coalescing may cause packet loss in downstream buffers, especially when using TCP/IP. We explore the effects of coalescing on TCP/IP flows with an ns-2 simulation, note that coalescing is already used to reduce packet processing load on the system CPU, and suggest open questions for future work. This article will help clarify what can be expected when EEE is deployed.