Abstract
Carbon emissions associated with fixed networks can be significant. However, accounting for these emissions is hard, requires changes to deployed equipment, and has contentious benefits. This work sheds light on the benefits of carbon aware networks, by exploring a set of potential carbon-related metrics and their use to define link-cost in carbon-aware link-state routing algorithms. Using realistic network topologies, traffic patterns and grid carbon intensity, we identify useful metrics and limitations to carbon emissions reduction. Consequently, a new heuristic carbon-aware traffic engineering algorithm, CATE, is proposed. CATE takes advantage of carbon intensity and routers' dynamic power consumption, combined with ports power down, to minimize carbon emissions. Our results show that there is no silver bullet to significant carbon reductions, yet there are promising directions without changes to existing routers' hardware.
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