Research Projects and Clusters

The Energy Efficient Internet Project

University of South Florida and University of Florida

Energy Efficient Digital Networks

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Real-time Energy Management via Powerlines and Internet (REMPLI)

Funded by the European Commission under contract number NNE5-2001-00825 of the Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (EESD) program.

Cool Silicon - Energy Efficiency Innovations from Silicon Saxony

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Selected Publications

Maruti Gupta and Suresh Singh: Using Low-Power Modes for Energy Conservation in Ethernet LANs. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2007), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007.

Eiji Hirao, S. Miyamoto, M. Hasegawa and H. Harada: Power Consumption Monitoring System for Personal Computers by Analyzing Their Operating States. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing (EcoDesign2005), p. 268-272, Tokyo, Japan, December 2005.

Chamara Gunaratne, Ken Christensen and Bruce Nordman: Managing Energy Consumption Costs in Desktop PCs and LAN Switches with Proxying, Split TCP Connections, and Scaling of Link Speed. International Journal of Network Management, 15:297-310, 2005.

V. Soteriou and Peh Li-Shiuan: Dynamic Power Management for Power Optimization of Interconnection Networks Using On/Off Links. In Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOT-I 2003), p. 15-20, August 2003.

Maruti Gupta and Suresh Singh: Greening of the Internet. In Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications (SIGCOMM 2003), p. 19-26, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 2003.

Liam Irish and Kenneth J. Christensen: A "Green TCP/IP" to Reduce Electricity Consumed by Computers. In Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon '98, p. 24-26, Orlando, Florida, USA, April 1998.

Technologies

Power-over-Ethernet (PoE)

IEEE P802.3af DTE Power via MDI Task Force

IEEE P802.3at DTE Power Enhancements Task Force

Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)

IEEE P802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet Task Force

Cutting Edge on the Web

Going Green on the Network (IT Business Edge)

Green Networking: Part 1: Selling the Idea to Executives - Part 2: Networks in Need of a Green Thumb (Search Networking)

802.3at pumps up Power over Ethernet (Network World)

Extreme Networks Provides Energy Savings with its Revolutionary Go Green Network Solution (Computerworld)

D-Link Launches Green Ethernet Switches (IT Business Edge)