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Greening the Internet: Measuring Web Power Consumption
Jan.-Feb. 2011 (vol. 13 no. 1)
pp. 48-53
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Aruna Prem Bianzino, Anand Raju, Dario Rossi, "Greening the Internet: Measuring Web Power Consumption," IT Professional, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 48-53, Jan.-Feb., 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MITP.2010.122,
author = {Aruna Prem Bianzino and Anand Raju and Dario Rossi},
title = {Greening the Internet: Measuring Web Power Consumption},
journal ={IT Professional},
volume = {13},
number = {1},
issn = {1520-9202},
year = {2011},
pages = {48-53},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MITP.2010.122},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Aruna Prem Bianzino, Telecom ParisTech
Anand Raju, Telecom ParisTech
Dario Rossi, Telecom ParisTech
This evaluation of end-user PCs browsing the Web—and loading Flash plug-ins—measures power consumption by considering the hardware platform, operating system, browser, and website. It also reveals the unnecessary power expenditures of tabbed browsing.

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Index Terms:
Information technology, Internet/Web, green IT
Citation:
Aruna Prem Bianzino, Anand Raju, Dario Rossi, "Greening the Internet: Measuring Web Power Consumption," IT Professional, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 48-53, Jan.-Feb. 2011, doi:10.1109/MITP.2010.122
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