Dominique Chiaroni, Raffaele Luca Amalfi, Jos George, Maximilian Riegel
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Abstract
One of the most important challenges of this century will be to minimise as much as possible the energy consumption of the worldwide digital infrastructure to have a significant contribution on our emissions of CO2 reduction since energy consumption and emission of CO2 are directly linked. Therefore, after an introduction (part 1), in part 2 of this paper, we will describe the status of the worldwide production of electricity, the contribution of information and communications technology (ICT) in terms of electricity consumption, and the identification of the critical network segments that can have a significant environmental impact. In part 3, we will focus on the data centres and core services that represent important network segments responsible for the largest emission of CO2. In part 4, we will address the access and aggregation part, which represents the second important network segment to optimise. Part 5 will focus on the home networking and enterprise. And before an estimation of the energy savings obtained when adopting the innovations proposed, the impact of the vertical market will be discussed in part 6. Finally, the conclusion (part 7) will summarise the results and perspectives will be proposed to complete the analysis.
期刊介绍:
Annals of Telecommunications is an international journal publishing original peer-reviewed papers in the field of telecommunications. It covers all the essential branches of modern telecommunications, ranging from digital communications to communication networks and the internet, to software, protocols and services, uses and economics. This large spectrum of topics accounts for the rapid convergence through telecommunications of the underlying technologies in computers, communications, content management towards the emergence of the information and knowledge society. As a consequence, the Journal provides a medium for exchanging research results and technological achievements accomplished by the European and international scientific community from academia and industry.