Green Net: Energy Management for Network Infrastructure
The major goals of the GreenNet project is to develop network protocols and traffic engineering mechanisms to improve the overall energy efficiency of computer network infrastructures. As stated in the proposal, we plan to develop the following:
- Evaluation platform and tools for evaluating power-aware network protocols
- Power-aware intro-domain routing protocols
- Power-aware inter-domain routing protocols
- Preliminary exploration of energy-efficient data center networks
Investigators
- Dr. Beichuan Zhang, Principal Investigator
- Dr. Christopher Gniady, Co-Principal Investigator
- Mathias Gibbens, Graduate Research Assistant
- Junxiao Shi, Graduate Research Assistant
Key outcomes and achievements
- A visualization tool for power-aware routing design and evaluation.
- Initial results of inter-domain power-aware routing protocols.
- A firmware for tracing home network behavior.
- The first version of a packet-level simulator that simulates both Hadoop system as well as the underlying network activity.
- Internet drafts and presentations at IETF on Power-Aware Networks.
Papers and Publications
Contributions to published books:
- Chengchen Hu, Mingui Zhang, Bin Liu, Beichuan Zhang (2012). Architectural Design of An Energy-efficient Router. Green Communications and Networking F. Richard Yu, Xi Zhang, Victor C.M. Leung. CRC Press. 1.
Currently we have two papers under submission:
- "GreenTE Inter-domain Extension", Junxiao Shi and Beichuan Zhang, 2013.
- "PALS: Network-wide Power Saving with Low Overhead", Dan Li, Yirong Yu, Beichuan Zhang, 2013.
At the IETF Routing Area Working Group (RTGWG), we have collaborated with a number of other researchers from industry and academia to advocate the new concept of Power-Aware Networks (PANET).
We have produced a number of Internet drafts:
- Power-Aware Networks (PANET): Problem Statement, Beichuan Zhang, Junxiao Shi, Jie Dong, Mingui Zhang, Med Boucadair
- Requirements for Power-Aware Networks, Jie Dong, Mingui Zhang, Beichuan Zhang, Med Boucadair
- Use Cases for Power-Aware Networks, Mingui Zhang, Jie Dong, Beichuan Zhang, Bithika Khargharia
We and our collaborators gave talks about the above Internet drafts at the IETF RTGWG meetings in 2012 and 2013.
Sponsors
The material contained in this site is based upon work supported by the National Science Fundation.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Science Foundation.