Enabling an Energy-Efficient Future Internet Through Selectively Connected End Systems
Mark Allman (ICSI), Ken Christensen (Univ. of South Florida), Bruce Nordman (LBNL), and Vern Paxson (ICSI and LBNL)

• Isn’t it the ignorance of the users is the most important reason why machines are on and waisting power?
• There is a lot of work done on power savings in hardware level, e.g., 802.11 power management for power savings. We need to make sure that software features take use of that hardware functionality.
• A point for future work: is the additional complexity of applications going to impact the energy savings? Trade offs needs to be weighted.
• It might be easier to change system administrators than software :)
• Mobile computing had very similar research problems... Is there anything new in the case of connected networks? There is a difference between mobile and connected. Connected networks might choose to make themselves disconnected, whereas in mobile domain disconnection is often imposed on a device.
• Even if host decides to be ‘disconnected’ it is still using power-supply (~40W or so).