Estimating the changing environmental impacts of ICT-based tasks: A top-down approach

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Teehan, Paul ^a   Kandlikar, Milind ^a   Dowlatabadi, Hadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication; Energy measurement; Environmental factors; Information technology

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION ENERGY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; SIMPLE METHOD; TIME SPENT; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INSTRUMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 77955108104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSST.2010.5507676     Document Type: Conference Paper

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