Publication Details
Title: The Energy and Emergy of the Internet
Author: B. Raghavan and J. Ma
Bibliographic Information: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-X), Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date: November 2011
Research Area: Networking and Security
Type: Article in conference proceedings
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/energyandemergy11.pdf
Overview:
Recent years have seen a flurry of energy-efficient networking research. But does decreasing the energy used by the Internet actually save society much energy? To answer this question, we estimate the Internet’s energy consumption. We include embodied energy (emergy)—the energy required to construct the Internet—a quantity that has often been ignored in previous work. We find that while in absolute terms the Internet uses significant energy, this quantity is negligible when compared with society’s colossal energy use.
Bibliographic Reference:
B. Raghavan and J. Ma. The Energy and Emergy of the Internet. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-X), Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2011
Author: B. Raghavan and J. Ma
Bibliographic Information: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-X), Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date: November 2011
Research Area: Networking and Security
Type: Article in conference proceedings
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/energyandemergy11.pdf
Overview:
Recent years have seen a flurry of energy-efficient networking research. But does decreasing the energy used by the Internet actually save society much energy? To answer this question, we estimate the Internet’s energy consumption. We include embodied energy (emergy)—the energy required to construct the Internet—a quantity that has often been ignored in previous work. We find that while in absolute terms the Internet uses significant energy, this quantity is negligible when compared with society’s colossal energy use.
Bibliographic Reference:
B. Raghavan and J. Ma. The Energy and Emergy of the Internet. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-X), Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2011