Tackling OpenFlow power hog in core networks with KeyFlow
Silvia Saldaña Cercós, Rafael Oliveira, Romulo de Angelis Vitoi, Magnos Martinello, Moisés R. N. Ribeiro, Anna Manolova Fagertun, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy · Electronics Letters · 2014
A comprehensive data plane power consumption analysis of an OpenFlow 1.0 switch broken down into its design modules is presented, and KeyFlow as an alternative solution is proposed, since it eliminates a flow table lookup by reducing 53.7% of the overall power consumption.