Energy Consumption Between Routing and Bridging Protocol for Eco-Friendly Wireless Networks

Abstract

The implementation of eco-friendly technology has been become an interesting field for sustainability. No exception with the implementation of wireless technology that used for developing networks infrastructure, it is necessary for saving the usage of energy. As a data forwarding protocol in a computer network, commonly there are two protocols that used for, which are routing and bridging protocol. Technically routing protocol has been confirmed that it is more effective and efficient than bridging protocol. However bridging protocol still becomes the popular protocol for data forwarding because it is easy to use. This research tried to test the energy consumption of the wireless network device that implementing between routing or bridging protocol. The wireless network device that used for this research was MikroTik router RB 433Ah. The data forwarding protocol that was tested consists of bridging, static routing, and RIP routing. Data traffic scenario that used for this research consisted of two scenarios which were HTML data access with packet size 256B and video streaming data access with packet size 1518B. Measuring the energy consumption referred to three parameters which were power consumption, CPU usage, and processor temperature. The result showed that for HTML data access scenario, the RIP routing protocol become the lowest energy consumption with power consumption reached 7.460 W, CPU usage 4.6 %, and processor temperature 38.133^C. While for video streaming scenario, generally the RIP routing protocol still become the lowest energy consumption with power consumption reached 7.567 W, CPU usage 7.33 %, and processor temperature 36.727^C.