Abstract:

With the development of the network scale, energy consumption problems of network infrastructures cannot be ignored. Studying and applying energy efficient routers is one of the important steps to develop green network. Based on the analysis of network traffic and the proof of the huge energy saving potential of finegrained frequency scaling, the system architecture of energy efficient routers is designed, which can dynamically scale the frequency. Two kinds of router frequency scaling strategies are mainly proposed, which are called microperiodical scaling policy and threshold scaling policy. And four specific frequency scaling methods are analyzed in detail. We simulate the frequency scaling policies under different traffic conditions, analyze the performance of policies under various application scenarios according to the experimental statistical data. The experiments on real traffic of access router show that about 40% of energy can be saved by using our power scaling methods, providing a reference for designing and applying of energy efficient methods on routers.

Key words: green networking;flow analysis;frequency scaling policies;router