Unified Approach of Top-down and Bottom-up Methods for Estimating Network Energy Consumption

• Published in: 39th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2013) pp. 1113 - 1115
• Main Authors: Ishii, K, Okazaki, F, Kurumida, J, Mizutani, K, Takeshita, H, Kobayashi, K, Mochinaga, D, Namiki, S, Sato, K, Kudoh, T
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Stevenage, UK IET 2013; The Institution of Engineering & Technology
• Subjects: Optical fibre networks; weighting factors; absolute value estimation; top-down methods; telecommunication power management; network energy consumption estimation; energy conservation; optical fibre networks; bottom-up methods; energy consumption; energy saving; network areas; optical cut-through

We present a unified approach of top-down and bottom-up methods for estimating network energy consumption by introducing weighting factors for network areas, which allows accurate estimation of the absolute value and scaling at the same time. Applying this approach to Japan shows that introduction o...