On the intertwining between capacity scaling and TCP congestion control
Carla Panarello, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Alfio Lombardo, Marco Mellia, Michela Meo, Giovanni Schembra · 2012
Recent works advocate the possibility of improving energy efficiency of network devices by modulating switching and transmission capacity according to traffic load. However, addressing the trade-off between energy saving and Quality of Service (QoS) under these approaches is not a trivial task, specially because most of the traffic in the Internet of today is carried by TCP, and is hence adaptive to the available resources.