A survey of green networking research

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-20

  Bianzino, Aruna Prem ^a   Chaudet, Claude ^a   Rossi, Dario ^a   Rougier, Jean Louis ^a  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive link rate; Energy aware applications; Energy aware infrastructure; Green Networking; Interface proxying; Wired Networks

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE LINK RATE; ECONOMICAL BENEFITS; ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY WASTES; ENERGY-AWARENESS; GREEN NETWORKING; PRECISE DEFINITION; ROOT CAUSE; STATE OF THE ART; WIRED NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; RESEARCH;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 83655178297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2011.113010.00106     Document Type: Article

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