Towards energy benchmarking for green video

Abstract

Digital video is responsible for the largest proportion of traffic on the Internet today - upto ~70%. However, very little published research has examined the energy impact of this growing traffic type on a global scale (on client systems, servers and in the network). We summarise results and lessons learned from our measurement-based experiments on the energy use of digital video. By providing users with appropriate information and feedback, we could enable changes in user behaviour to save energy during use of digital video. We discuss the ongoing development of our benchmark tool which generates information on energy usage for users or other interested stakeholders.