A detailed survey of approaches reducing energy consumption of core networks is
presented in this paper. We consider a multilayer architecture, in which the optical layer can …

Over recent years, green communications have been proposed as an emerging strategy to
reduce the Carbon footprint produced by the networking sector. It consists in using different …

The use of information and communication technology (ICT) has resulted in significant
impacts on social welfare, economic growth, transparency, and good governance in …

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new networking paradigm that is attracting
the attention of the research community due to the flexibility provided by the separation …

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 …

The topic of energy efficiency in backbone networks has recently gained an increasing
interest and has become one of the important parts of networking research. The energy …

This paper relates to the problem of energy conservation in Internet backbone networks. We
propose a new Distributed Green Algorithm based on Sleep‐scheduling (DGAS) to switch …

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 …

Over recent years, green communication has been investigated to reduce the economic
costs and environmental pollution caused by network infrastructures. There exist many …

Over recent years, energy conservation of Internet infrastructure has attracted a great deal of
attention to reduce the economical cost and environmental pollution produced by …