Green in-building networks: The future convergence of green, optical and wireless technologies

The global network energy consumption is increasing at an alarming rate due to proliferation of the Internet and its increasing bandwidth-intensive applications. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient Access/In-Building architecture that features energy efficient customer premises equipment (...

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Main Authors: Kazovsky, Leonid G., Ayhan, Tolga, Gowda, Apurva S., Dhaini, Ahmad R., Ng'oma, Anthony, Vetter, Peter
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer architecture
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Green products
Integrated optics
Networking
Optical-wireless networks
Passive optical networks
Radio-over-Fiber
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Summary:The global network energy consumption is increasing at an alarming rate due to proliferation of the Internet and its increasing bandwidth-intensive applications. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient Access/In-Building architecture that features energy efficient customer premises equipment (CPE) design in conjunction with an energy efficient access network protocol, and in-building optical/wireless integration using Radio-over-Fiber. We analyze the energy consumption of the proposed architecture and show that the use of these technologies could lead to up to 50% energy savings compared to the architectures that employ legacy technologies.
ISSN:2162-7339
DOI:10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602674