Power Consumption Comparison of NetFPGA-based Routers

DOI

10.2991/meic-15.2015.227How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Power consumption; NetFPGA; Frequency scaling; Energy proportional network design.

Abstract

Energy efficiency is one of the most important issues in designing the future Internet. For examining an energy efficient router, in this paper, differnet routers such as rate control protocol (RCP) router, precision time protocol (PTP) router and reference router are compared in terms of the power consumption. The experimental measurements demonstrate that with varying the traffic load, the RCP router and the PTP router consume almost identical power which is about >1% higher than that of the reference router. This power degradation is observed to be from the 3.3V power component of the total power consumption and arises from the increased design complexity for implementing the RCP and the PTP onto the router. In addition, the down scaling of the NetFPGA core operational frequency is promising for reducing the energy consumption of the RCP router and PTP router.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xing Zheng
AU  - Jie Jin
AU  - Lingling Sun
AU  - Xiaojun Wang
PY  - 2015/04
DA  - 2015/04
TI  - Power Consumption Comparison of NetFPGA-based Routers
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronic, Industrial and Control Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 996
EP  - 1000
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/meic-15.2015.227
DO  - 10.2991/meic-15.2015.227
ID  - Zheng2015/04
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