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Recent years have seen major efforts to contain the environmental footprint of the Internet. The last decade has witnessed revolutionary research to address some of the challenges faced in the Internet. This article describes an investigative framework for determining the energy savings incurred with new routing protocols and routers. The framework is applied to a real ISP network - the AT&T ISP network in the United States. It describes techniques to collect statistics from such large networks and analyze them. The statistics are then used to study the energy consumption in the ISP network both with routers running the current routing protocol, which is Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and also with routers running the new protocol. The cost models and energy savings studies applied to large ISP networks as presented in this article is the first of its kind. As evidenced from this study significant energy benefits and cost savings thereof can be realized with the proposed modular routing protocol.
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Notes
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The carbon footprint is not only due to routers but the excessive use of all types of computing devices on the Internet to support the services that are being offered.
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The methodology to identify BB, DR and AR routers and POPs was confirmed by Level 3 another ISP in the US.
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We are assuming that the router price is directly proportional to the complexity of the router.
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Nozaki, Y., Shenoy, N., Gupta, A. (2016). Power Usage Efficiency with a Modular Routing Protocol. In: Doss, R., Piramuthu, S., Zhou, W. (eds) Future Network Systems and Security. FNSS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 670. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48021-3_3
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