ECOFEN: an End-to-end energy Cost mOdel and simulator For Evaluating power consumption in large-scale Networks

Anne-Cécile Orgerie (1, 2, 3) , Laurent Lefèvre (1, 4) , Isabelle Guérin-Lassous (1, 4) , Dino Lopez Pacheco (5)

1 LIP - Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme
2 ENS Lyon - École normale supérieure - Lyon
3 RESO - Protocols and softwares for very high-performance network
4 RESO - Protocols and softwares for very high-performance network
5 Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux, et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis (I3S) / Equipe SIGNAL

Wired networks are increasing in size and their power consumption is becoming a matter of concern. Evaluating the end-to-end electrical cost of new network architectures and protocols is difficult due to the lack of monitored realistic infrastructures. We propose an End-to-End energy Cost mOdel and simulator For Evaluating power consumption in large-scale Networks (ECOFEN) whose user's entries are the network topology and traffic. Based on configurable measurement of different network components (routers, switches, NICs, etc.), it provides the power consumption of the overall network including the end-hosts as well as the power consumption of each equipment over time.

Keywords: Energy cost model; Energy efficiency; Network simulator; Power consumption; Wired networks; Adaptation models; Energy consumption; Network topology; Optical switches; Power demand; Protocols; Topology

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]

Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Laurent Lefèvre, Isabelle Guérin-Lassous, Dino Lopez Pacheco. ECOFEN: an End-to-end energy Cost mOdel and simulator For Evaluating power consumption in large-scale Networks. Sustainet: International Workshop on Sustainable Internet and Internet for Sustainability, Jun 2011, Lucca, Italy. pp.1-6, ⟨10.1109/WoWMoM.2011.5986203⟩. ⟨ensl-00618599⟩