Abstract

Networking devices today consume a non-trivial amount of energy. This
energy consumption is largely independent of the load through the
devices. With a strong need to curtail the rising operational costs of
IT infrastructure, there is a tremendous opportunity for introducing
energy awareness in the design and operation of enterprise and data
center networks. In this talk, I will discuss the energy
proportionality of today's network devices based on our power profile
benchmarking study. I will then present various network energy
management techniques and results from two case-studies from a data
center network and an enterprise network.  

I will also give a brief overview of the networking research at HP
Labs.


Speaker Bio

Puneet Sharma is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs where he
conducts research on Network Measurement and Monitoring, Wireless
Networks, Quality of Service and Data Center Networks. Prior to
joining the HP Labs in 1998, he received his PhD in Computer Science
from the University of Southern California. He also holds a B.Tech. in
Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT) Delhi. His work on Mobile Collaborative Communities was featured
in the New Scientist Magazine. Currently his research focuses on
building programmable networks and QoS mechanisms for fabric
convergence.

He has also participated in various standardization efforts. Recently
he contributed to the UPnP's QoS Working Group efforts as co-author
for QoSv3 standards. Earlier, he had co-authored the IETF standards'
RFCs on the multicast routing protocol PIM. Puneet was the Co-Chair of
13th IEEE LANMAN Workshop in April 2004.