Sustainable Networking

The Internet has grown to become an indispensable part of our lives. It also consumes massive amounts of energy and is accountable for an increasingly large share of the worldwide carbon footprint–each in the order of a couple of percent! The question is not if but how we can improve Internet sustainability.

If you are interested in a project or a doctoral position in that area, contact Romain; we often have more project ideas than what is being publicly offered on our website.

Active Members

Lukas Röllin
PhD student

Talks

It Is Time to Address Network Power Proportionality

Slides Publication

Fantastic Joules and Where to Find Them. Modeling and Optimizing Router Energy Demand

Video Publication

What does that really tell us? Interpreting numbers in sustainability reports

Slides Publication

The Internet is Getting Emptier; That's a Sustainability Problem

Video

A Sleep Study for ISP Networks: Evaluating Link Sleeping on Real World Data

Slides Publication

What keeps your network up at night? A link sleeping study of Switch LAN

Slides

Sustainable Networking - AdvNet 2023

Slides

On taking network power down

Slides

The Internet of tomorrow must sleep more and grow old - RIPE87 (2023)

Video

The Internet of tomorrow must sleep more and grow old - HotCarbon (2022)

Video Publication

Selected Publications

Romain Jacob, Lukas Röllin, Jackie Lim, Jonathan Chung, Maurice Béhanzin, Weiran Wang, Andreas Hunziker, Theodor Moroianu, Seyedali Tabaeiaghdaei, Adrian Perrig, and Laurent Vanbever
IMC '25

Running Student Theses

Selected Student Theses

Data Visualization of Switzerland's Resarch and Education Network (Group project)
Student: Simon Englert, Leonard Wechsler
Supervisors: Romain Jacob and Laurent Vanbever