The Energy and Emergy of the Internet
Title | The Energy and Emergy of the Internet |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Authors | Raghavan, B., & Ma J. |
Other Numbers | 3196 |
Abstract | Recent years have seen a flurry of energy-efficient networkingresearch. But does decreasing the energy used by theInternet actually save society much energy? To answer thisquestion, we estimate the Internets energy consumption. Weinclude embodied energy (emergy)the energy required toconstruct the Interneta quantity that has often been ignoredin previous work. We find that while in absolute termsthe Internet uses significant energy, this quantity is negligiblewhen compared with societys colossal energy use. |
URL | http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/energyandemergy11.pdf |
Bibliographic Notes | Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-X), Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Abbreviated Authors | B. Raghavan and J. Ma |
ICSI Research Group | Networking and Security |
ICSI Publication Type | Article in conference proceedings |