While ICT is seen as a large part of the solution towards reducing the
world’s carbon footprint (e.g., video-conferencing reducing air-miles, dynamic
energy monitoring and control, multi-modal transport logistic solutions, etc.),
ICT in itself needs to become more energy efficient. For example the EU
Commission is pushing for ICT to reduce its own carbon footprint by 20% by 2015.
Energy Efficient ICT refers to all efforts to "Green” ICT, to reduce power
consumption and carbon emissions of ICT networks and systems. Given the growth
rate in internet traffic, this is important both for environmental and financial
reasons.
In NIC in DCU energy efficient ICT research covers a multitude of work from
wired to wireless technologies, physical to application layer schemes, from
energy-saving network-wide schemes to saving energy at individual component
level, all for future next generation networks.
NIC Energy- Aware Networking Topics
Topics included in the NIC research focus include:
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Energy-efficient hardware acceleration for network applications
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HDL modelling for synthesis and rapid FPGA prototyping
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Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments
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Energy-aware Adaptive Multimedia Delivery
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Energy-Efficient Mesh Networking
NIC Energy- Aware Networking Afflictions and Memberships
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ICT COST Action IC1004 Cooperative Radio
Communications for Green Smart Environments (C.
Brennan)
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Membership of GreenTouch
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Part of the EU FP7 ECONET consortium (X. Wang, M. Collier, O.
Ormond)
Example Energy-Aware Networking Projects
Some examples of NIC projects in the energy space include:
Project title
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Project details/ link
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Main Contact |
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ECONET - low Energy COnsumption NETworks
FP7
(http://www.econet-project.eu)
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M. Collier
X. Wang
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Energy-aware Adaptive Scheme in Wireless Devices
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G. Muntean |
Providing Energy-aware Rich Network-based Services in Strict Security
Environments
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IRCSET-Citadel100 Postgraduate Enterprise Partnership |
G. Muntean
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Energy-aware encoding and streaming for rich media content enabled mobile
devices
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IRCSET-Everseen Postdoctoral Enterprise Partnership |
G. Muntean
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Cross-layer Power Saving Solutions for Multimedia Data Transmission in
Heterogeneous Wireless Environments
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IRCSET Postgraduate Embark Initiative |
G. Muntean
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Cooperative Communication and Resource Management in Cognitive Network
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ICT COST Action IC1004 |
C. Brennan
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High Performance Hardware Accelerators for Deep Packet Inspection with Low
Power Consumption
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IRCSET Embark Initiative (2009-2012) |
X. Wang |
Best Route Selection based on Existing Road Traffic Conditions via Mobile
Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
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IRCSET Embark Initiative |
G. Muntean
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High Performance Low-Power Hardware Accelerators for Deep Packet Inspection
(DPI)
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Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund (Proof of
Concept) 2008 |
X. Wang
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Power Efficient Caches for High Performance Network Processors
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IRCSET Embark Initiative (2008-2011): |
X. Wang
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Low Power, Parallel Compiler Optimization for High Performance Network
Processors
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IRCSET Embark Initiative (2007-2010): |
X. Wang
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Performance Optimization Techniques for Caching Mechanism in Network
Processors
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IRCSET Embark Initiative (2007-2009): |
X. Wang
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Energy Efficient Network Processor Design
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IRCSET Embark Initiative (2006-2009): |
X. Wang
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Architecture and Compiler Optimization for Power Reduction in High
Performance Network Processors
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SFI China-Ireland Science and Technology Collaboration Research
Fund (2006-2008) (PIs: Dr Xiaojun Wang, Dr
Martin Collier (DCU); Prof Bin Liu, Tsinghua University) |
X. Wang M.Collier B.Liu
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Research on Optimized Processing in Network Processor Units for High-
performance Routers
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SFI China-Ireland Science and Technology Collaboration Research Fund
(2004-2006) |
X. Wang
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Smart antennas in urban environments
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Danny O'Hare postgraduate Scholarship
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C. Brennan
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Selected NIC Energy-Aware Networking Publications
NIC publications in the 'Green' ICT space include:
- R. Trestian, A-N. Moldovan, O. Ormond, and G-M. Muntean, “Energy Consumption
Analysis of Video Streaming to Android Mobile Devices”, IEEE/IFIP Network
Operations and Management Symposium, (NOMS), accepted, 2012.
- M. Kennedy, H. Venkataraman, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, “ Battery and
Stream-Aware Adaptive Multimedia Delivery for Wireless Devices”, IEEE
International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile
Networks (P2MNET), IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 2010,
[ Paper
]
- R. Trestian, O. Ormond and G-M. Muntean, "Power-Friendly Access Network
Selection Strategy for Heterogeneous Wireless Multimedia Networks" ,IEEE
International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB),
March 2010
[Paper].
- Z. Liu, A. Kennedy, O. Ormond, X. Wang, “Power-Efficient Packet Classifier
for Next-Generation Routers”, ERCIM (European Research
Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) News, No. 79, Oct. 2009.
- A. Kennedy, Z. Liu, X. Wang, B. Liu, "Multi-Engine Packet Classification
Hardware Accelerator", ICCCN 2009, San Francisco, 2-6 August
2009.
- D. McMullin, R. Trestian, and G-M. Muntean, "Power Save-based Adaptive
Multimedia Delivery Mechanism", The 9th Iformation Technology and
Telecomunication Conference (IT&T), 2009
[Paper].
- A. Kennedy, X. Wang, Z. Liu, B. Liu, “Low Power Architecture for High Speed
Packet Classification”, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and
Communications Systems (ANCS2008), Nov 6-7, 2008
- K. Collins, G.-M. Muntean, “An Adaptive Vehicle Route Management Solution
Enabled by Wireless Vehicular Networks”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
(VTC), September 2008
[ Paper
]
- K. Collins, G.-M. Muntean, “A Vehicle Route Management Solution Enabled by
Wireless Vehicular Networks”, IEEE INFOCOM, MObile Networking for Vehicular
Environments (MOVE) Workshop, April 2008
[ Paper
]
- G.-M. Muntean, J. Adams, "Power Saving in Wireless Multimedia Streaming to
Mobile Devices", in “Wireless Multimedia: Quality of Service and Solutions”,
IGI Global Publishing House, Information Science Reference, 2008
- K. Collins, G.-M. Muntean, "TraffCon: An Intelligent Traffic Control System
for Wireless Vehicular Networks", IET China-Ireland International Conference on
Information and Communications Technology (CIICT), August 2007, pp. 699-706
[ Paper
]
- J. Adams, G.-M. Muntean, "Adaptive-Buffer Power Save Mechanism for Mobile
Multimedia Streaming", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC),
June 2007 [
Paper ]
- A. Kennedy, X. Wang, Z. Liu, B. Liu, "Frequency Scaling for Multidimensional
Packet Classification", The IET 2008 China-Ireland International Conference on
Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT2008), Sept
26-28, 2008, pp. 383 -387.
- A. Kennedy, X. Wang, B. Liu, 'Energy Efficient Packet Classification
Hardware Accelerator”, proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Parallel &
Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008), Florida, USA,
April 14-18, 2008.
- A. Kennedy, D. Bermingham, X. Wang, B. Liu, “Power Analysis of Packet
Classification on Programmable Network Processors”, Proc 2007 IEEE Intl Conf on
Signal Processing and Communications (ICSPC07), Dubai, UAE,
24-27 Nov 2007, pp. 1231-1234.
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