Power efficiency of computer networks is an important issue for green computing. Currently available models
such as the green pipe model minimizes the power consumption
in the networks only for traffic demands which is fixed beforehand. In practice, the ongoing traffic demands can fluctuate
due to different reasons, which the green pipe model cannot
handle. On the contrary, some other existing models such
as the green hose model can deal with traffic fluctuations,
however with much lower power efficiency compared with the
green pipe model. This research presents a robust green hoserectangle (green HR) model that employs the advantages of the
mentioned both kinds of models. In one hand, our proposed
model improves the power efficiency, on the other hand, allows
the traffic demands to fluctuate within some acceptable range.
In our model, we use an uncertainty set which is the intersection
of the rectangle and hose uncertainty sets to allow errors
and traffic fluctuations. Our model is tractable by modern
optimization software within a reasonable time although it
is in the form of mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)
problem. Our experiments show some promising results. The
efficiency of our proposed model is improved in terms of power
savings, number of deactivating links, and computation time
when compared with the green hose model