Energy Consumption Between Routing and Bridging Protocol for Eco-Friendly Wireless Networks

Abstract

The implementation of eco-friendly technology has been become an interesting field for sustainability. No exception with the implementation of wireless technology that used for developing networks infrastructure, it is necessary for saving the usage of energy. As a data forwarding protocol in a computer network, commonly there are two protocols that used for, which are routing and bridging protocol. Technically routing protocol has been confirmed that it is more effective and efficient than bridging protocol. However bridging protocol still becomes the popular protocol for data forwarding because it is easy to use. This research tried to test the energy consumption of the wireless network device that implementing between routing or bridging protocol. The wireless network device that used for this research was MikroTik router RB 433Ah. The data forwarding protocol that was tested consists of bridging, static routing, and RIP routing. Data traffic scenario that used for this research consisted of two scenarios which were HTML data access with packet size 256B and video streaming data access with packet size 1518B. Measuring the energy consumption referred to three parameters which were power consumption, CPU usage, and processor temperature. The result showed that for HTML data access scenario, the RIP routing protocol become the lowest energy consumption with power consumption reached 7.460 W, CPU usage 4.6 %, and processor temperature 38.133^C. While for video streaming scenario, generally the RIP routing protocol still become the lowest energy consumption with power consumption reached 7.567 W, CPU usage 7.33 %, and processor temperature 36.727^C. IntroductionWireless networks are the most considered choice today to build infrastructure computer networks, especially for wide coverage areas. This is because wireless networks allow users to connect the networks flexibly without being limited by hardware like the limitation of conventional wired computer networks. Finally, wireless networks infrastructure is be able to cover almost every places even remote places. There has been increased the use of mobile devices, hotspot areas, and wireless IoT globally [1]. Even wireless infrastructure like telecom tower (BTS), has grown significantly. In 2018, there are 118 thousand towers that cover mostly 95% area of Indonesia for serving 157 million customers [2]. Actually, mobile device that implements wireless technology infrastructure gives energy efficiency, but nowadays the increasing of data usage makes energy saving in vain [3]. It is no doubt that the increase of internet conection and mobile phones impacts the electricity consumption especially in developing country [4].In other hand, the development of wireless networks as information and communication technology (ICT) certainly raises an effect [5], [6]. Theoretically, information and communication technology has a positive and significant relation with energy consumption [7], no exception with wireless technology. Wireless technology is one of the developed techn...

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