Seminar in
Sustainable Networking Spring 2024

Networked Systems Group

Join us to explore and discuss classical and recent works on sustainable networking!

In addition to covering new ideas and big open questions in communication networks, this seminar will hone your skills in scientific presentation, discussion moderation, and critical thinking.

News

Mar 11 The paper assignment is online. Look for your name in a green badge next to the paper titles, or use Ctrl+F ;-)
Feb 23 The reading list is now online!
Important! We had to add a half-session on May 2nd to make the schedule work.
Feb 8 Important! The seminar starts in week 2 (on Feb. 29) this semester.
You can find the session's calendar below.
Feb 8 Website for the 2024 edition goes live.

Contact

Lecturers

  • Romain Jacob
  • Laurent Vanbever

Research group Networked Systems Group

Course information

Refer to the Course Catalogue.

Reviewing platform   HotCRP
Chat workspace       seminar-net-ethz.slack.com

Where & When

Thursday 2 pm–4 pm,  ETZ J 91

Week 1 Feb 22
No session

The seminar starts only in week 2!

Week 2 Feb 29
Introduction to the Seminar
Seminar's organization
Laurent   Romain
Slides
Background for the "Context" session (Week 4)
Romain
Resources
How to read a paper
How to read a research paper
Writing reviews for systems conferences
Week 3 March 7
No session
Week 4 March 14
Sustainable networking into context
Greening of the internet
(SIGCOMM 2003)   Romain
Paper | Background (joined with the next paper)
Reducing Network Energy Consumption via Sleeping and Rate-Adaptation
(NSDI 2008)   Romain
Paper | Background
Background for the "Modeling" session (Week 6)
Fabian   Isha
Week 5 March 21
No session
Week 6 March 28
Modeling networks' energy usage
Modeling Energy Consumption in High-Capacity Routers and Switches
(JSAC 2014)   Fabian
Paper
ICT sector electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions – 2020 outcome
(Telecommunications Policy 2024)   Isha
Paper
Background for the "Datacenters" session (Week 8)
Marco   Jonas D.
Week 7 April 4
No session Easter break
Week 8 April 11
Sustainable datacenters
Temperature management in data centers: why some (might) like it hot
(SIGMETRICS 2012)   Marco
Paper
Energy-Proportional Data Center Network Architecture Through OS, Switch and Laser Co-design
(Preprint 2021)   Jonas D.
Paper
Background for the "Wireless" session (Week 10)
Simone   Jonas S.
Week 9 April 18
No session
Week 10 April 25
Wireless
Reducing the Energy Footprint of Cellular Networks with Delay-Tolerant Users
(JSYST 2017)   Simone
Paper
Learning to Communicate Effectively Between Battery-free Devices
(NSDI 2022)   Jonas S.
Paper
Background for the "Routing" session (Week 11)
Marios   Nathan
Week 11 May 2
Background for the "Optics" session (Week 15)
Thomas
Week 12 May 9
No session Ascension Day
Week 13 May 16
Green routing
Green Segment Routing for Improved Sustainability of Backbone Networks
(LCN 2023)   Marios
Paper
Carbon-Aware Global Routing in Path-Aware Networks
(e-Energy 2023)   Nathan
Paper
Background for the "Application" session (Week 15)
Diego   Yanis
Week 14 May 23
No session
Week 15 May 30
Optical networks
Solar superstorms: planning for an internet apocalypse
(SIGCOMM 2021)   Thomas
Paper | | Video (see Supplementary materials)
Applications
Energy proportionality of an enterprise network
(Green Networking 2010)   Diego
Paper
GreenABR+: Generalized Energy-Aware Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
(TOMM 2024)   Yanis
Paper