Paper Info
Title
Renewable Energy-Aware Information-Centric Networking.
Abstract
The ICT industry today is placed as one of the major consumers of energy, where recent reports have also shown that the industry is a major contributor to global carbon emissions. While renewable energy-aware data centers have been proposed, these solutions have certain limitations. The primary limitation is due to the design of data centers which focus on large-size facilities located in selected locations. This paper addresses this problem, by utilizing in-network caching with each router having storage and being powered by renewable energy sources (wind and solar). Besides placing contents closer to end users, utilizing in-network caching could potentially increase probability of capturing renewable energy in diverse geographical locations. Our proposed solution is dual- layered: on the first layer a distributed gradient-based routing protocol is used to discover the paths along routers that are powered by the highest renewable energy, and on the second layer, a caching mechanism will pull the contents from the data centre and place them on routers of the paths that are discovered by our routing protocol. Through our experiments on a testbed utilizing real meteorological data, our proposed solution has demonstrated increased quantity of renewable energy consumption, while reducing the workload on the data centers.
Year
Venue
Field
2014
CoRR
Renewable energy,End user,Computer science,Computer network,Testbed,Information-centric networking,Router,Data center,Greenhouse gas,Routing protocol,Distributed computing
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1412.6382
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Julien Mineraud1296.15
Liang Wang226325.34
Sasitharan Balasubramaniam362266.40
Jussi Kangasharju41180102.31