Energy-aware load balancing for parallel packet processing engines

2011 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications, GreenCom'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 105-112

  Bolla, Raffaele ^a   Bruschi, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CNIT   (Italy)

Author keywords

adaptive rate; green networking; low power idle

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RATE; DIVIDE AND CONQUER; ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY-AWARE NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GREEN NETWORKING; INCOMING TRAFFIC; LOW POWER; NETWORK DEVICES; PACKET FORWARDING; PACKET LATENCIES; PACKET PROCESSING ENGINES; POWER CONFIGURATION; ROUTER ARCHITECTURE; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC TRACES;

ARTS COMPUTING; BALANCING; COMMERCE; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; PACKET NETWORKS; ROUTERS;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 83655197192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GreenCom.2011.6082516     Document Type: Conference Paper

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