Green networking using a combination of network virtualization and adaptive link rate

The world has become a dumping ground of waste materials. The use of computers is proliferating in the 21
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century and the emission of greenhouse gases is affecting our environment at an alarming rate. Networks have become so annealed that their use has been increasing day by day. Greenhouse gases are being emitted enormously due to excess use of networks in IT industry. The need of the hour is to enforce utopian approaches in networks which do not perturb the environment and thereby ensuring sustainable development. Green networking is the usage of picking energy efficient resources to consume minimum amount of power to transfer packets among networks using nodes known as green nodes. Green networking reduces the complication in networks and traffic congestion, making it environment friendly. This paper proposes an algorithm that combines the advantages of network virtualization and adaptive link rate to enhance the performance of the network and in this manner greening the network.