This course is an outcome of the FP7 NoE TREND (Towards Real Energy-efficient Networking), coordinated by POLITO.
The course will be offered to students of POLITO; and to students/researchers of the other TREND participants.
The course aims at providing a comprehensive and updated overview of the issues in the hot area of energy-efficient networking.

- An energy primer (4+4 hours)
- Generation (fossil/renewable)
- Transport and distribution
- Metrics (LCA)

- The operator needs (4 hours)
- Metro/core networks
- Wired access
- Wireless access

- The manufacturers approach (4 hours)
(Reducing the energy consumption of individual network elements)
- Metro/core networks
- Wired access
- Wireless access

- Some research proposals (4+4+4+2 hours)
(Reducing the energy consumption at the network level)
- Metro/core networks
- Wired access
- Wireless access
- Applications
- Data center networks