The concept of energy-efficient networking has begun to spread in the past few years,
gaining increasing popularity. Besides the widespread sensitivity to ecological issues, such …

Reduction of unnecessary energy consumption is becoming a major concern in wired
networking, because of the potential economical benefits and of its expected environmental …

OpenFlow is a great concept, but its original design imposes excessive overheads. It can
simplify network and traffic management in enterprise and data center environments …

Networks are a shared resource connecting critical IT infrastructure, and the general practice
is to always leave them on. Yet, meaningful energy savings can result from improving a …

The great amounts of energy consumed by large-scale computing and network systems,
such as data centers and supercomputers, have been a major source of concern in a society …

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that provides computing, communication and
storage resources as a service over a network. Communication resources often become a …

According to several studies, the power consumption of the Internet accounts for up to 10%
of the worldwide energy consumption and is constantly increasing. The global …

To better cope with the Internet usage shift from host-centric end-to-end communication to
receiver-driven content retrieval, innovative information-centric networking (ICN) …

We present ACES, an automated server provisioning system that aims to meet workload
demand while minimizing energy consumption in data centers. To perform energy-aware …

Power optimization has become a key challenge in the design of large-scale enterprise data
centers. Existing research efforts focus mainly on computer servers to lower their energy …