Saving Energy by Delegating Network Activity to Home Gateways

Raffaele Bolla; Marco Chiappero; Rafiullah Khan; Matteo Repetto

doi:10.1109/TCE.2015.7389798

Saving Energy by Delegating Network Activity to Home Gateways

Raffaele Bolla, Marco Chiappero, Rafiullah Khan, Matteo Repetto

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

Today, an ever-increasing number of devices has networking capability. The main implication of this fact is that such devices are often left fully powered yet idle just to maintain their network presence, hence leading to large energy waste. This ultimately results in higher electricity cost for consumers. This paper tackles an effective mechanism to reduce energy waste of consumer electronics, by boosting the usage of lowpower states available in most devices. The main concept is to delegate background networking routines to home gateways, which are today available in most homes and offices. The paper describes the functionality and the software architecture to be implemented by home gateways and consumer electronics, reports performance evaluation on a working prototype, and provides estimation of potential benefits for consumers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	445-453
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
Volume	61
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2015.7389798
Publication status	Published - Nov 2015

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