E3 MC : improving energy efficiency via elastic multi-controller SDN in data center networks

• Main Authors: Xie, Kun, Huang, Xiaohong, Hao, Shuai, Ma, Maode, Zhang, Pei, Hu, Dingyuan
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Data Center Network; DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Energy Management
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89392; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47045
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Energy consumed by network constitutes a significant portion of the total power budget in modern data centers. Thus, it is critical to understand the energy consumption and improve the power efficiency of data center networks (DCNs). In doing so, one straightforward and effective way is to make the...