The widespread proliferation of Internet and wireless applications has produced a significant
increase of ICT energy footprint. As a response, in the last years, significant efforts have …

Recent studies have shown that a large amount of energy consumption in the
communication medium occurs at the data processing plane. The data plane executes the …

In this chapter, we provide an overview of energy‐aware routing solutions for backbone
networks. After an introduction of energy‐aware strategies for network scenarios, we …

This work proposes a novel approach to reduce the power consumption of IP routers:
freezing the forwarding engine of routers line-cards. In fact, recent studies showed that about …

Reducing energy consumption in the Telecom industry has become a major research
challenge to the Internet community due to high level of energy waste on redundant network …