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This project addresses the increasingly critical need to improve the energy
efficiency of the Internet by focusing on the primary and often neglected energy
consumer, edge devices. Unfortunately, due to limits of existing protocols and
architectures, networked desktop computers typically remain powered-up during
frequent and often lengthy periods of idleness. As network devices, they are
prevented from operating in an energy-efficient manner due to their need to
respond to network transactions of various types without warning. In this
project, we address network induced energy use for current and future
edge devices. We also address reducing the direct energy use of
high-speed links connecting these edge devices to the Internet.
Significant outcomes and events:
The contacts for this project are
Ken Christensen at the
University of South Florida and
Alan D. George at the
University of Florida. A key collaborator
is Bruce Nordman at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Bruce is the PI for the Energy
Efficient Digital Networks project at LBNL.
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