Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành hóa học dành cho các bạn yêu hóa học tham khảo đề tài: Research Article Green Networking for Major Components of Information Communication Technology Systems | Hindawi Publishing Corporation EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Volume 2009 Article ID 656785 7 pages doi 2009 656785 Research Article Green Networking for Major Components of Information Communication Technology Systems Naveen Chilamkurti 1 Sherali Zeadally 2 and Frank Mentiplay1 1 Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering La Trobe University Melbourne 3086 Australia 2 Department of Computer Science and Information Technology University of the District of Columbia Washington DC 20008 USA Correspondence should be addressed to Naveen Chilamkurti Received 28 July 2009 Accepted 28 September 2009 Recommended by Yuh-Shyan Chen Green Networking can be the way to help reduce carbon emissions by the Information and Communications Technology ICT Industry. This paper presents some of the major components of Green Networking and discusses how the carbon footprint of these components can be reduced. Copyright 2009 Naveen Chilamkurti et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction The late David Brower 1 a noted environmentalist stated We don t inherit the environment from our ancestors we borrow it from our children . This is a very sobering comment. If the definition of sustainability is that we leave this planet to our children in a better state than we found it then according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC 2 we are failing dismally. The major contributor to global warming and climate change is the dramatic increase in human greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere the main greenhouse gas is Carbon Dioxide CO2 . 2. Green Networking Green Networking covers all aspects of the network personal computers peripherals switches routers and communication media . Energy efficiencies of all network .
