Future Sustainable Internet Energy-Defined Networking

Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive set of design methods for making future Internet networking fully energy-aware and sustainably minimizing and managing the energy footprint. It includes (a) 41 energy-aware design methods, grouped into Service Operations Support, Management Operations Support, Compute Operations Support, Connectivity/Forwarding Operations Support, Traffic Engineering Methods, Architectural Support for Energy Instrumentation, and Network Configuration; (b) energy consumption models and energy metrics are identified and specified. It specifies the requirements for energy-defined network compliance, which include energy-measurable network devices with the support of several control messages: registration, discovery, provisioning, discharge, monitoring, synchronization, flooding, performance, and pushback.