Hardware Based Packet Classification for High Speed Internet Routers

• Main Authors: Meiners, Chad R. (Author), Liu, Alex X. (Author), Torng, Eric. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer hardware.; Memory management (Computer science).; Computer Communication Networks.; Software engineering.; Telecommunication.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Computer Hardware.; Memory Structures.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6700-8

Packet classification is the core component of routers, firewalls and other networking devices that enables many networking services such as packet filtering and traffic accounting. Using Ternary Content Addressable Memories (TCAMs) to perform high-speed packet classification has become the standard...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Background
• Related Work
• Part I Equivalent Transformation Techniques
• TCAM Razor
• BitWeaving
• All-Match Redundancy Removal
• Part II New Architectural Approaches
• Sequential Decomposition
• Topological Transformations
• References
• Index.