It's not easy being green

SIGCOMM'12 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Conference Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 211-222

  Gao, Peter Xiang ^a   Curtis, Andrew R ^a   Wong, Bernard ^a   Keshav, Srinivasan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

energy; green computing

Indexed keywords

ACCESS LATENCY; CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON TAXES; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; DATA CENTERS; ELECTRICITY BILL; ELECTRICITY COSTS; END-USERS; ENERGY; FLOW OPTIMIZATION; GREEN COMPUTING; INTERNET APPLICATION; TRAFFIC ENGINEERING; TRAFFIC LOADS; USER TRAFFICS;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRICITY; EMISSION CONTROL; INTERNET; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMIZATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84866480667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2342356.2342398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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