An Energy-Aware Algorithm for Optimizing Resource Allocation in Software Defined Network

• Published in: 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) pp. 1 - 7
• Main Authors: Bing Yu, Yanni Han, Xuemin Wen, Xin Chen, Zhen Xu
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2016
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Network topology; Ports (Computers); Resource management; Routing; Servers; Topology

With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, the huge amount of energy consumed by data centers has gained much attention. Current proposals address the energy efficiency problem by two major methods: optimizing the allocation of physical servers and network elements (routers or switches). In...