Reduction of unnecessary energy consumption is becoming a major concern in wired
networking, because of the potential economical benefits and of its expected environmental …

Since the energy crisis and environmental protection are gaining increasing concerns in
recent years, new research topics to devise technological solutions for energy conservation …

OpenFlow is a great concept, but its original design imposes excessive overheads. It can
simplify network and traffic management in enterprise and data center environments …

Cloud computing data centers are becoming increasingly popular for the provisioning of
computing resources. The cost and operating expenses of data centers have skyrocketed …

Networks are a shared resource connecting critical IT infrastructure, and the general practice
is to always leave them on. Yet, meaningful energy savings can result from improving a …

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that provides computing, communication and
storage resources as a service over a network. Communication resources often become a …

Numerous studies have shown that datacenter computers rarely operate at full utilization,
leading to a number of proposals for creating servers that are energy proportional with …

In modern data centers, energy consumption accounts for a considerably large slice of
operational expenses. The existing work in data center energy optimization is focusing only …

Data centers are growing exponentially (in number and size) to accommodate the escalating
user and application demands. Likewise, the concerns about the environmental impacts …

Server consolidation using virtualization technology has become an important technology to
improve the energy efficiency of data centers. Virtual machine placement is the key in the …