Method for reducing energy consumption in packet processing linecards
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsChristian Dorize, Georg Post
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Abstract
The present invention refers to a method for reducing energy consumption in a packet processing linecard of a packet transmission network, said packet processing linecard comprising a plurality of microprocessors aimed at processing packet traffic wherein the number of active microprocessors is dynamically adjusted as a function of the computation of a traffic estimator based on a recurrent estimation of at least two statistical parameters including the average and a parameter representative of the statistical distribution of the packet traffic.
Claims4
A method for reducing energy consumption in a packet processing linecard of a packet transmission network, said packet processing linecard comprising a plurality of microprocessors aimed at processing packet traffic, the method comprising the steps of:
- recurrently estimating, by a traffic estimator, at least two statistical parameters including an average and a parameter representative of a statistical distribution of the packet traffic;
- and
- dynamically adjusting a number of active microprocessors as a function of a computation of the traffic estimator, wherein the parameter representative of the statistical distribution of the packet traffic comprises a statistical moment of the packet traffic and
- wherein the statistical moment of the packet traffic comprises a standard deviation of the packet traffic.
A method for reducing energy consumption in a packet processing linecard of a packet transmission network, said packet processing linecard comprising a plurality of microprocessors aimed at processing packet traffic, the method comprising the steps of:
- recurrently estimating, by a traffic estimator, at least two statistical parameters including an average and a parameter representative of a statistical distribution of the packet traffic;
- and
- dynamically adjusting a number of active microprocessors as a function of a computation of the traffic estimator,
- wherein the parameter representative of the statistical distribution of the packet traffic comprises a quantile of the packet traffic.
A method for reducing energy consumption in a packet processing linecard of a packet transmission network, said packet processing linecard comprising a plurality of microprocessors aimed at processing packet traffic, the method comprising the steps of:
- recurrently estimating, by a traffic estimator, at least two statistical parameters including an average and a parameter representative of a statistical distribution of the packet traffic;
- and
- dynamically adjusting a number of active microprocessors as a function of a computation of the traffic estimator, wherein a delay is introduced before deactivating a microprocessor in order to reduce very short periods of inactivity of the microprocessor.
A method for reducing energy consumption in a packet processing linecard of a packet transmission network, said packet processing linecard comprising a plurality of microprocessors aimed at processing packet traffic, the method comprising the steps of:
- recurrently estimating, by a traffic estimator, at least two statistical parameters including an average and a parameter representative of a statistical distribution of the packet traffic;
- and
- dynamically adjusting a number of active microprocessors as a function of a computation of the traffic estimator, wherein microprocessors are configured to process specific classes of packets such that a decision of activating or deactivating a microprocessor takes into account the packet class-specific configuration of said microprocessor.
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