Projects
Projects: Projects for Investigator |
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| Reference Number | EP/X040828/1 | |
| Title | CBET-EPSRC: TECAN - Telemetry-Enabled Carbon Aware Networking | |
| Status | Started | |
| Energy Categories | Energy Efficiency(Industry) 100%; | |
| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Computer Science and Informatics) 80%; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) 20%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Professor N Zilberman Engineering Science University of Oxford |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | EPSRC | |
| Start Date | 01 April 2024 | |
| End Date | 31 March 2027 | |
| Duration | 36 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £435,640 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Communications | |
| Region | South East | |
| Programme | NC : ICT | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Professor N Zilberman , Engineering Science, University of Oxford (100.000%) |
| Industrial Collaborator | Project Contact , British Telecommunications Plc (BT) (0.000%) Project Contact , Intel Corporation, USA (0.000%) Project Contact , Xyratex Technology Limited (0.000%) |
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| Objectives | ||
| Abstract | Addressing climate change is of existential importance. Although there are many contributing factors, energy production and consumption has one of the most direct impacts on the environment. A significant portion of this can be attributed to computer networks, with some reports estimating that they consume 1.5x the energy of all data centres. However, in contrast to other large scale compute infrastructure, accounting for the carbon emissions of the network is extremely hard. A traffic flow can cross multiple administrative domains in different regions of the world, be processed in devices powered by different energy sources, and share the energy consumption with tens of thousands of other traffic flows.The goal of this project is to quantify, and subsequently reduce, the carbon emissions of computer networks. Concretely, it proposes a comprehensive research agenda that will: (1) identify metrics that cover the end-to-end environmental cost of data transmission; (2) leverage programmable network elements to collect and report the metrics by developing novel carbon-intelligent network telemetry solutions; and (3) design novel, carbon-aware network routing algorithms that utilize the measurements. Overall, the project will enable accurate accounting of computer networks' carbon emissions and develop novel routing algorithms to minimize the carbon emissions of the Internet, combating climate change.If successful, the project will help us meet the targets established by the UK government, which has committed to achieving 'net-zero' by 2050. Specifically, it will help communication providers to minimize their carbon emissions; enable policy makers to reliably check that companies meet government's net-zero goals; and allow consumers to choose communications and ICT providers based on their sustainability claims. | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 17/04/24 | |
