Network hardware level

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Table of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction 
1.1 Problem statement
1.2 Thesis contribution
1.3 Thesis organization
Chapter 2 Green ICT and green networking: state of the art 
2.1 Energy efficiency technology for networking devices
2.1.1 Network hardware level
2.1.2 Network software level
2.1.3 Network design level
2.2 Software defined networking: A paradigm shift in energy savings
2.3 Brown energy vs green energy
2.4 Open issues and discussion
Chapter 3 Analysing the power consumption of the core network: GÉANT 
3.1 Topology and traffic analysis
3.1.1 Day vs night and week vs weekend traffic analysis
3.1.2 Testing bandwidth capacity
3.1.3 Why not brute-force?
3.2 Shared path first algorithm
3.2.1 Network model formalization
3.2.2 Network constraints
3.2.3 Algorithm description
3.3 Result analysis
3.4 Conclusion
Chapter 4 Energy aware routing: An SDN perspective 
4.1 Accepted green policies
4.2 Defining planes: control, data and management plane
4.3 Formalization of the energy model
4.4 Heuristic algorithm: genetic algorithm for solving minimization problem
4.4.1 Algorithm description
4.4.2 Design of experiment
4.4.3 Tuning of the algorithm
4.4.4 Simulation setup
4.5 Result analysis
4.5.1 Tuning outcome
4.5.2 Fitness function analysis
4.6 Conclusion
Chapter 5 Moving towards Sustainability 
5.1 Quality in Sustainability
5.2 Introducing environmental metrics
5.2.1 Carbon emission factor
5.2.2 Non-renewable energy usage percentage
5.3 Energy aware routing vs Pollution aware routing
5.4 Proposed solution
5.4.1 integration of environmental metrics into objective function
5.4.2 Design of a sustainable system
5.5 Evaluation of the model in terms of QiS
5.5.1 Result analysis
5.5.2 Discussion on sustainability
5.6 Evaluation of the model in terms of QoS
5.6.1 QoS parameters
5.6.2 Result analysis
5.7 Conclusion
Chapter 6 Green-networking and stability 
6.1 Network stability issues
6.1.1 Incoherent data planes
6.1.2 Convergence issue in distributing a data plane
6.1.3 Network instability and its occurrence
6.2 Improving stability of the system
6.2.1 Introducing penalty
6.2.2 Plane filtering: To implement or not
6.2.3 Extension of the model
6.2.4 Case study
6.3 Conclusion
Chapter 7 Conclusion and Perspective 
7.1 Main outcome
7.2 Perspectives
7.2.1 Variability of the static part of energy model
7.2.2 Implementing the solution in LAN context
7.2.3 Applying the solution in end to end network
7.2.4 Temporal analysis for environmental factors
7.2.5 Implementation challenges of SDN platform
7.2.6 Different heuristics for solving the problem
7.2.7 Intelligence defined network for increasing stability and QoE
Appendix A 
Appendix B 
Appendix C List of Publications 
Bibliography