Power Consumption Analysis of Energy-aware FTTH Networks

With increasing usage of the Internet, energy consumption of network equipment has become a crucial challenge from both an economic and an environmental point of view. This paper combines users' behavior of acc essing the network with energy saving algorithms for energy-aware network equipment, and investigates potential energy savings in the access network. The study is based on a set of traffic data that collected from a real residential fiber-t o-the-home (FTTH) network during three continuous months in 2013. The results show that on average every household link i n the access network can potentially save at least 18% energy co nsumption with sleep-mode enabled equipment.

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