Green Networking

[I don’t actively work on this topic at the moment]

Topic overview

Green is a nice color, and the networks too should have their new painting. Indeed, large-scale ICT infrastructures expanded rapidly and their energy consumption grew drastically these last few years. As networks and data centers are generally prepared to face high load conditions, these infrastructures are under-utilized most of the time. There is, there, a clear direction to save energy. Network equipments, in particular, could be switched off when the load is low and switched on again when traffic increases, or when a failure happens, requiring redundant equipments to take the duty.

Research directions

Within the various optimization strategies, I am particularly interested into green routing, i.e. how to select routes in a network in order to ease energy savings. Core networks are usually over-provisioned, so that they can absorb peak traffic. They could, however, dynamically adapt their behavior to the load they experience. If routing avoids certain equipments (routers or even links via switches), these equipments can be put asleep until they are needed. QoS shall be preserved in every situation, though. We expressed this problem as an optimization problem, including the topological and traffic load aspects. We proposed various models of consumption for these networks and modeled the problem of selecting active equipments as a cooperative game. We evaluated the performance of the Shapley value as a ranking metric to select the active routers in real infrastructures, taking into account real traffic matrices.

Publications

2014

  • [DOI] A. P. Bianzino, J. Rougier, C. Chaudet, and D. Rossi, “The Green-Game: accounting for device criticality in resource consolidation for backbone IP networks,” Strategic Behavior and the Environment, special issue on ICT-based strategies for environmental conflicts, vol. 4, no. 2, jul, 2014.
    [Bibtex] 
    @article{Bianzino:2012kx,
  Author = {Bianzino, Aruna Prem and Rougier, Jean-Louis and Chaudet, Claude and Rossi, Dario},
  Date-Added = {2012-12-08 13:19:39 +0000},
  Date-Modified = {2014-09-15 14:21:40 +0000},
  Doi = {10.1561/102.00000038},
  Journal = {Strategic Behavior and the Environment, special issue on ICT-based strategies for environmental conflicts},
  Month = jul,
  Number = {2},
  Title = {The Green-Game: accounting for device criticality in resource consolidation for backbone IP networks},
  Volume = {4},
  Year = {2014}}

2012

  • [DOI] A. P. Bianzino, C. Chaudet, S. Moretti, J. Rougier, L. Chiaraviglio, and E. Le Rouzic, “Enabling Sleep Mode in Backbone IP-Networks: a Criticality-Driven Tradeoff,” in IEEE ICC’12 Workshop on Green Communications and Networking (ICC’12 WS – GCN), Ottawa, Canada, jun 2012.
    [Bibtex] 
    @inproceedings{Bianzino:2012qf,
  Address = {Ottawa, Canada},
  Author = {Bianzino, Aruna Prem and Chaudet, Claude and Moretti, Stefano and Rougier, Jean-Louis and Chiaraviglio, Luca and Le Rouzic, Esther},
  Booktitle = {IEEE ICC'12 Workshop on Green Communications and Networking (ICC'12 WS - GCN)},
  Date-Added = {2012-12-08 13:42:21 +0000},
  Date-Modified = {2012-12-08 13:44:03 +0000},
  Doi = {10.1109/ICC.2012.6364832},
  Month = jun,
  Title = {Enabling Sleep Mode in Backbone IP-Networks: a Criticality-Driven Tradeoff},
  Year = 2012,
  Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2012.6364832}}
  • [DOI] A. P. Bianzino, C. Chaudet, D. Rossi, and J. Rougier, “A Survey of Green Networking Research,” IEEE Communications Society Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 14, no. 1, jan, 2012.
    [Bibtex] 
    @article{Bianzino2012ss,
  Author = {Bianzino, Aruna Prem and Chaudet, Claude and Rossi, Dario and Rougier, Jean-Louis},
  Date-Added = {2011-08-31 22:39:43 +0200},
  Date-Modified = {2013-01-19 14:18:44 +0000},
  Doi = {10.1109/SURV.2011.113010.00106},
  Journal = {IEEE Communications Society Surveys & Tutorials},
  Month = jan,
  Number = {1},
  Title = {A Survey of Green Networking Research},
  Volume = {14},
  Year = {2012},
  Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SURV.2011.113010.00106}}

2011

  • A. P. Bianzino, C. Chaudet, D. Rossi, S. Moretti, and J. Rougier, “The Green-Game: Striking a balance between QoS and energy saving,” in 23rd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC23), San Francisco, USA, sep 2011.
    [Bibtex] 
    @inproceedings{Bianzino:2011oq,
  Address = {San Francisco, USA},
  Author = {Bianzino, Aruna Prem and Chaudet, Claude and Rossi, Dario and Moretti, Stefano and Rougier, Jean-Louis},
  Booktitle = {23rd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC23)},
  Date-Added = {2012-12-08 13:52:03 +0000},
  Date-Modified = {2012-12-08 13:52:57 +0000},
  Month = sep,
  Title = {The Green-Game: Striking a balance between QoS and energy saving},
  Year = {2011}}

2010

  • A. P. Bianzino, C. Chaudet, D. Rossi, and J. Rougier, “Energy-Awareness in Network Dimensioning: a Fixed Charge Network Flow Formulation (Poster),” in 1st International Confrerence on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking (ACM Sigcomm e-Energy), Passau, Germany, apr 2010.
    [Bibtex] 
    @inproceedings{Bianzino2010bd,
  Address = {Passau, Germany},
  Author = {Bianzino, Aruna Prem and Chaudet, Claude and Rossi, Dario and Rougier, Jean-Louis},
  Booktitle = {{1st International Confrerence on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking (ACM Sigcomm e-Energy)}},
  Date-Added = {2011-08-31 22:46:09 +0200},
  Date-Modified = {2011-09-18 21:15:45 +0200},
  Month = apr,
  Title = {{Energy-Awareness in Network Dimensioning: a Fixed Charge Network Flow Formulation (Poster)}},
  Year = {2010}}
  • [DOI] A. P. Bianzino, C. Chaudet, F. Larroca, D. Rossi, and J. Rougier, “Energy-Aware Routing: a Reality Check,” in 3rd International Workshop on Green Communications (GreenComm3), Miami, FL, USA, dec 2010.
    [Bibtex] 
    @inproceedings{Rossi2010qc,
  Address = {Miami, FL, USA},
  Author = {Bianzino, Aruna Prem and Chaudet, Claude and Larroca, Federico and Rossi, Dario and Rougier, Jean-Louis},
  Booktitle = {3rd International Workshop on Green Communications (GreenComm3)},
  Date-Added = {2011-08-31 22:43:54 +0200},
  Date-Modified = {2012-12-08 13:21:22 +0000},
  Doi = {10.1109/GLOCOMW.2010.5700172},
  Month = dec,
  Title = {Energy-Aware Routing: a Reality Check},
  Year = {2010},
  Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2010.5700172}}