GreenTouch™ Inventing Sustainable, Ultra-Energy-Efficient ICT Networks
Suresh Goyal (Green Research Leader, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent)
Abstract
On Jan 11th, 2010, Ben VERWAAYEN (CEO of Alcatel-Lucent) and the research leadership of Bell Labs made an exciting announcement to the whole world — the formation of a global consortium, called GreenTouch™, with the mission of inventing sustainable, ultra-energy-efficient ICT networks. In his talk, Suresh GOYAL (Technical Lead for GreenTouch™ in Bell Labs) will review the Bell Labs research that led to the need for GreenTouch™.
Suresh will show that the sustainability of continued exponential growth in networks, essential for global economic-progress and for smart energy management, is threatened by the slowdown in capacity improvements. As a result, despite the best technological innovations currently underway, energy in networks will continue to rise over the next decade. He will then show that Bell Labs researchers have estimated that networks have the potential to be vastly more energy efficient than they are today. However, realizing these improvements requires fundamental re-architecting of networks from an energy perspective and skills, resources and the market buy-in that a global consortium of equipment vendors, service providers, research organizations (including Academia), and Government, can quickly bring together. Suresh will discuss the 5 year research goals for GreenTouch™ and some research directions for meeting those goals. He will also briefly discuss our progress, both within the consortium and within Bell Labs, since the announcement of GreenTouch™.
Short Bio
Dr. Suresh GoyalDr. Suresh Goyal, a distinguished member of technical staff in Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Research, currently leads the Green Research theme at Bell Labs. As part of this, Suresh has been leading strategy development and coordinating Bell Labs’ cross-domain research on sustainable networks and energy-efficiency enablement. A center point of Bell Labs’ green research is GreenTouch®. GreenTouch® is a global research consortium, formed under the leadership of Bell Labs, with the goal of inventing sustainable, ultra-energy-efficient, ICT networks. Suresh led the Bell Labs research teams that performed the analyses leading to the announcement of GreenTouch®.
Suresh is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, in Limerick, Ireland, with a research focus on mechanics and energy harvesting. Suresh is a founding member of Bell Labs Ireland, and the CTVR, where he led the Test and Reliability research group, and co-led strategy development, for 5 years. Suresh’s test and reliability group worked on problems related to remote diagnostic and fault-recovery systems, automated and embedded testing, test and reliability modeling and cost optimization. Suresh has previously held positions in optical networking research and wireless packaging research in Bell Labs, leading a broad research group focused on reducing the manufacturing cost of network equipment. During this period, Suresh also served as Adjunct Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, PA. Suresh’s early research in Bell Labs, on developing the science and technologies for improving the impact-tolerance of portable equipment, found broad usage in Industry and in Lucent Technologies’ and AT&T’s products.
Suresh obtained his PhD from Cornell University, in Ithaca, NY, an MS from the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, IA, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Suresh is a Fellow of the ASME. Suresh has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, 9 patents, 3 Best Paper awards, several Internal Bell Labs awards, and his work has been profiled by International mass-media. Through his University collaborations and Adjunct Professor duties, Suresh has graduated 3 PhD students and 2 Master’s students, and mentored several Senior researchers and students.
On behalf of the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, and its predecessors before, Suresh has been on Boards and committees for mentoring and awarding Fellowships for higher education to under-represented minorities, and for Science education reform.
