Managing energy consumption costs in desktop PCs and LAN switches with proxying, split TCP connections, and scaling of link speed

  • Authors:
  • Chamara Gunaratne;Ken Christensen;Bruce Nordman

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL;Energy Analysis Department, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, California

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Network Management
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The IT equipment comprising the Internet in the USA uses about $6 billion of electricity every year. Much of this electricity use is wasted on idle, but fully powered-up, desktop PCs and network links. We show how to recover a large portion of the wasted electricity with improved power management methods that are focused on network issues.