TEPG:a traffic engineering based power-aware greedy routing algorithm in backbone networks with bundled links

1 Introduction and main contributions Various power-aware solutions have been proposed to address the alarming energy waste and consequent serious environmental issues since Gupta and Singh initiated the seminal study on green networking problem in 2003.Most of the researches concentrated their efforts on power-aware networking under the non-bundled link scenarios by leveraging the dynamic power management based Low Power Idle(LPI)policy which was defined and standardized in the IEEE 802.3az standard.However,in modern backbone networks,pairs of routers are typically connected,for each traffic direction,by multiple physical links that form one logical bundled link,which is the link aggregation technique defined and standardized in IEEE 802.1AX.