RESEARCH ON TESTBED SYSTEM AND NEW METHOD TO SAVE ENERGY FOR OPENFLOW SWITCH

Tóm tắt

Improving energy efficiency of the switch is becoming an increasingly important research topic, motivated by the need to reduce energy costs for Data center. In order to orient the way of cutting power consumption on NetFPGA switch [11], we have made an experiment to determine how much energy consumed on each part. In this paper, we first outline our experimental setup and methodology, and then describe detailed figures of components. That helps us to have better decision of which part should be cut down the power consumption, e.g. Ethernet chip and FPGA chip,etc. Based on these results, we propose new method for energy efficient OpenFlow switch on NetFPGA platform. Experimental results demonstrate an excellent energy saving according to different working modes, and the designed system is feasible for the switch to save energy.