Institute of Communication and Computer Networks

Energy saving in backbone networks - spatial variations of traffic, physical layer constraints, and protection against network failures




Duration

01.11.2014 – 31.10.2017

Financing entity

National Science Centre

Summary

Today’s telecommunications backbone networks are powered on even during low traffic periods, and consume non-negligible amounts of energy. Several algorithms have been proposed in the literature to dynamically calculate network configuration depending on changing traffic demands, so that some devices can be powered off (or put into sleep mode) during low traffic periods to decrease energy consumption. We study the influence of changes of spatial traffic distribution entering the backbone IP-over-WDM network on the potential level of savings that can be achieved with the above-mentioned algorithms. Additionally, an extension of the known algorithms working in the IP layer is planned within the project, so that they consider physical layer constraints as well as protection requirements against failures in telecommunications backbone networks.

Publications, reports or patents resulting from the project

13. Carlos Natalino, Luca Chiaraviglio, Filip Idzikowski, Lena Wosinska, and Paolo Monti, “Joint Optimization of Failure Management Costs, Electricity Costs, and Operator Revenue in Optical Core Networks?,” Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE, Nov. 2017.
12. Luca Chiaraviglio, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, William Liu, Jairo A. Gutierrez, Jaap Van De Beek, Robert Birke, Lydia Chen, Filip Idzikowski, Daniel Kilper, Paolo Monti, Antoine Bagula, and Jinsong Wu, “Bringing 5G into Rural and Low-Income Areas: Is it Feasible?,” Communications Standards Magazine, IEEE, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 50 - 57, Sep. 2017.
11. Carlos Natalino, Filip Idzikowski, Luca Chiaraviglio, Lena Wosinska, and Paolo Monti, “EFAH: an Energy and Fatigue Aware Heuristic for Provisioning Highly Available Connections in Optical Backbone Networks,” in Proc. of the RNDM, Alghero, Italy, IEEE, Sep. 2017.
10. Mariusz Żal and Filip Idzikowski, “Green Control of Network Nodes with TCAM-ALG,” in Proc. of the ICC Workshop, Paris, France, IEEE, May 2017.
09. Carlos Natalino, Luca Chiaraviglio, Filip Idzikowski, Carlos Francés, Lena Wosinska, and Paolo Monti, “Optimal Lifetime-Aware Operation of Green Optical Backbone Networks,”, Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 3915 - 3926, Dec. 2016.
08. Luca Chiaraviglio, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, William Liu, Jairo A. Gutierrez, Jaap Van De Beek, Robert Birke, Lydia Chen, Filip Idzikowski, Daniel Kilper, Paolo Monti, and Jinsong Wu, “5G in Rural and Low-Income Areas: Are We Ready?,” in Proc. of the ITU Kaleidoscope, Bangkok, Thailand, IEEE, Nov. 2016.
07. Filip Idzikowski, Frank Pfeuffer, Axel Werner, and Luca Chiaraviglio, “Spatial and Temporal Traffic Variation in Core Networks: Impact on Energy Saving and Devices Lifetime,” Energies, MDPI, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 837, Oct. 2016.
06. Filip Idzikowski, Frank Pfeuffer, Axel Werner, and Luca Chiaraviglio, “Impact of Spatial Traffic Variation on Energy Savings and Devices Lifetime in Core Networks,” in Proc. of the HPSR, Yokohama, Japan, IEEE, June 2016.
05. Filip Idzikowski, Luca Chiaraviglio, Antonio Cianfrani, Jorge López Vizcaíno, Marco Polverini, and Yabin Ye, “A Survey on Energy-Aware Design and Operation of Core Networks,” Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 1453–1499, May 2016.
04. C. Natalino, L. Chiaraviglio, F. Idzikowski, P. Monti, M. Listanti, C. Francês, and L. Wosinska, “Lifetime-Aware Provisioning in Green Optical Backbone Networks,” accepted for the OFC, OSA, Anaheim, USA, Mar. 2016.
03. L. Chiaraviglio, P. Wiatr, P. Monti, J. Chen, J. Lorincz, F. Idzikowski, M. Listanti, and L. Wosinska, “Is Green Networking Beneficial in Terms of Device Lifetime?,” Communications Magazine, IEEE, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 232–240, May 2015.
02. F. Idzikowski, “Overview and outlook on energy-aware adaptive routing solutions in IP-over-WDM networks,” in Proc. of the NetSys, Cottbus, Germany, IEEE, Mar. 2015.
01. Y. Ye, F. Jiménez, J. Elmirghani, F. Idzikowski, J. López Vizcaíno, P. Monti, F. Musumeci, A. Pattavina, and W. Van Heddeghem, “Energy-efficient resilient optical networks: challenges and trade-offs,” Communications Magazine, IEEE, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 144–150, Feb. 2015.


Supervisor/coordinator

dr inż. Filip Idzikowski

Project Manager (PUT)

dr inż. Filip Idzikowski

Project participants (PUT)

prof. dr hab. inż. Wojciech Kabaciński
dr inż. Filip Idzikowski

Project partners

No partners in the project. The project involves the cooperation with foreign partners not financed from the project budget e. g. Universita di Roma Sapienza (Italy), Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH (Germany), Zuse Institut Berlin (Germany), KTH Royal Institut of Technology (Sweden).