Green networking with packet processing engines: Modeling and optimization

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 110-123

  Bolla, Raffaele ^a   Bruschi, Roberto ^b   Carrega, Alessandro ^a   Davoli, Franco ^a  

^a Naval Architecture ^*  (Italy)

^b CNIT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive rate; Forwarding engine; Green networking; Low power idle; Multipipeline

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873962195     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2013.2242485     Document Type: Article

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