Towards Real Energy-efficient Network Design (TREND)

1. Towards Real Energy-efficient Network Design(TREND) TO: ProfDr. AdeelAkram & fellowstudents By: Sajjadhussain 09-MS-TE-11 Muhammad Tariqjaved 09-ms-cp-12

2. TREND Project TREND is a Network of Excellence on Energy-Efficient Networking. Coordinated by Organization named: POLITECNICO DI TORINO. (Polytechnic University of Turin) Funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Start date: 01-09-2010 End date: 31-08-2013 Project cost: 4.43 Million € (3 Million funded by FP7)

3. About TREND • TREND aims at integrating the activities of major European players in networking. • Includingmanufacturers, operators, research centers, to quantitatively assess the energy demand of current and future telecom infrastructures. • and to design energy-efficient,scalableandsustainablefuture networks.

4. Objectives (1) • Integrate and restructure existing partners’ knowledge on energy-efficiency networking. • Building a virtual centre of excellence that covers specific issues in the field of energy-efficient networking to serve European industry with • education & training • research tools & test-labs, and • pave the way to the development of new technologies & architectures. • Stimulate and intensify collaboration, as well as exchange of researchers, between the research groups involved in TREND and those active in the FP7 projects in energy efficient networking. • Disseminate the expertise and know-how of these European research groups to a broader audience, both R&D oriented as well as industry - and decision maker oriented. • Reach out, include and link to research activities in national programmes, or programmes outside Europe.

5. Objectives (2) Definition of specific technical objectives to be jointly pursued within the Network of Excellence. Specific Integrated Research Actions (IRAs), implemented internally to the NoE, will be open to external collaborations, and will play an important jump-start role in fostering integration and building synergies over complementary technical backgrounds and viewpoints. Organization of workshops specifically targeting the dissemination of the TREND know-how and view on green networking to non-R&D participants, i.e. industrial representatives & policy makers. These workshops will make visible both the available expertise and the support that TREND is offering as a distributed centre of excellence, as well as the results obtained on hot issues through its Integrated Research Actions.

6. Questions addressed by TREND What is the real power consumption of Information and Communication Technology? In which sections of network infrastructures (home, access, core, data center) can energy-conscious approaches be more effective? Can optical technologies help in significantly reducing power consumption? Is the current Internet architecture, and TCP in particular, energy friendly? What are the best suited engineering criteria and principles to actively support energy efficiency along the sequence of network design, planning, and operation? What kind of mutually beneficial incentives can be proposed to network operators, service providers, and users, in order to maximize energy efficiency?

7. Technical Focus Contribution to both “retrofit” of existing networks and “clean slate” design of new networks. Scope limited to networking; e.g., no direct attention to the estimation of the full lifetime of an electronic device, nor to power-related tradeoffs due to ICT technologies (e.g., the energy cost of telecommuting vs. the energy cost of physical commuting)

8. Expected Achievements Collecting data to assess the power consumption of terminals, devices and infrastructures. Identifying energy-friendly devices, technologies, protocols and architectures, and investigating how they can be introduced in operational networks. Defining new energy-aware network design criteria. Experimentally proving the effectiveness of the proposed approaches

9. TREND Organization • Total partners are 12, all with significant previous experience in the technical topics: • 2 manufacturers • 3 telecom operators • 7 university groups, and 7 Collaborating Institutions • Estimated Effort: 446 person-months • Project Budget Distribution: • 34% for research • 35% for integration and structuring • 21% for spreading of excellence • 8% for project management

10. TREND Partners (Consortium) POLITECNICO DI TORINO (Polytechnic University of Turin) ALCATEL - LUCENT BELL LABS FRANCE HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO (Telefonica R & D is research and development company of the Telefónica Group) FRANCE TELECOM FASTWEB SPA UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTITUTE FOR BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS (UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY)

11. TREND Work-Packages Activities in TREND are organized in the following 6 work-packages (WPs): WP1: Assessment of power consumption in ICT WP2: Energy efficiency in access & home networks WP3: Energy efficiency in core networks WP4: Instrumenting the network for power saving WP5: Dissemination and outreach WP6: Project organization and management

12. Work Packages interplay

13. Management & Governance Structure An effective management structure, articulated in few governing bodies with clear and focused responsibilities, has been established for the TREND NoE to ensure the active involvement of project participants at the policy-making level. The following governing bodies are envisaged: The Project Co-Ordinator(with the Project Office and the Project Leader) is responsible for the coordination and supervision of all the activities to be implemented within TREND; The General Assembly is the strategic body where all NoE partners are involved; The JPA Committee (JPAC) is the executive body, which is in charge of the overall integration process.

14. Concertation Activities TREND will actively participate in the activities organized by the EC at programme level relating to the ICT Communication Technologies area. With the objective of providing input towards common activities and receiving feedback (e.g. from clusters and coordination groups). Offering advice and guidance and receiving information relating to ICT programme implementation, standards, policy and regulatory activities, national or international initiatives, etc.

16. Assignment 14 In which sections of network infrastructures (home, access, core, data center) can energy-conscious approaches be more effective? Is the current Internet architecture, and TCP in particular, energy friendly? If no, what are the options to improve it?