ENERGY BASED NETWORK RESTRUCTURING

• US 20150365289A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Hidalgo Herrera, Horacio Manuel
• Application Number:
  US14/764,563
• Publication Number:
  US 20150365289A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0833 for reduction of network energy consumption
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/22 Alternate routing

Abstract

Energy based network restructuring can include retrieving a counter from a network device that is part of a network. Energy based network restructuring can also include calculating an expected load for the network device, wherein the expected load is based on a service agreement, a load history of a load on the network device, and the counter. Energy based network restructuring can include restructuring the network by allocating a network resource to the network device limited to fulfill the expected load and to reduce an energy consumption of the network device.

Claims

1. A method for energy based network restructuring comprising:

retrieving a counter from a network device that is part of a network;

calculating an expected load for the network device;

wherein the expected load is based on a service agreement, a load history of a load on the network device, and the counter; and

restructuring the network by allocating a network resource to the network device limited to fulfill the expected load and to reduce an energy consumption of the network device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein restructuring the network includes turning the network device on or off.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein restructuring the network includes reducing or increasing a bandwidth that is associated with the network device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein reducing or increasing the bandwidth of the network device includes reducing or increasing the bandwidth by a percentage of a current bandwidth sufficient to fulfill the expected load.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein retrieving the counter includes retrieving the counter from an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) of the network device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein retrieving the counter includes calculating at least one of jitter, data units dropped, bandwidth, latency, and error transmission.

7. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions for energy based network restructuring executable by a machine to cause the machine to:

retrieve a counter from a network device that is part of a network;

calculate an expected energy consumption for the network device;

wherein the expected energy consumption for the network device is based on a service agreement, a load history of a load on the network device, and the counter; and

restructure the network by allocating a network resource limited to fulfill the expected energy consumption and to reduce an energy consumption of the network device.

8. The medium of claim 7, wherein the instructions executable to calculate the expected energy consumption include instructions to calculate a current energy consumption for the network device based on the counter.

9. The medium of claim 7, wherein the instructions executable to calculate the expected energy consumption include instructions to calculate an energy history of the energy consumption of the network device based on the load history of the load on the network device.

10. The medium of claim 7, wherein the instructions executable to calculate the energy consumption include instructions to calculate an energy requirement for the network to fulfill the service agreement.

11. A network controller, comprising:

a processing resource in communication with a memory resource, wherein the memory resource includes;

a counter module including instructions to retrieve a counter from a network device that is part of a network;

an expected load module including instructions to calculate an expected load for the network device;

wherein the expected load for the network device is based on a service agreement, a load history of a load on the network device, and the counter; and

a network restructure module including instructions to restructure a number of communication links that are associated with the network device limited to fulfill the expected load and to reduce an energy consumption of the network.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the instructions to restructure the number of communication links that are associated with the network device include instructions to calculate a base load and a work load of the network device from the expected energy consumption.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the base load defines energy needed for basic functions of the network device and wherein the work load defines energy needed by the network device to process a number of data units.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the instructions to restructure the number of links include instructions to disassociate a link, from the number of links, from the network device and associate the link with a different network device when the different network device has a capacity to process a number of data units, wherein disassociating the link from the network device and associating the link with the different network device conserves energy.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the instructions to restructure the number of links include instructions to associate an additional communication link with the network device when the number of data units that the network device processes increases and when the base load plus the work load are less than a total energy capacity that is associated with the network device.