Stringent memory access and search speed requirements are two of the main bottlenecks in wire speed processing. Most viable search engines are implemented in content addressable m...
— The recent trend of rapid increase in routing table sizes at routers comprising the Internet’s core is posing a serious challenge to the current Internet’s scalability, ava...
CAMs are the most popular practical method for implementing packet classification in high performance routers. Their principal drawbacks are high power consumption and inefficient...
Ed Spitznagel, David E. Taylor, Jonathan S. Turner
— With the emergence of Voice over IP and other real-time business applications, there is a growing demand for an IP network with high service availability. Unfortunately, in tod...
The routing architecture of the original 4.4BSD [3] kernel has been deployed successfully without major design modification for over 15 years. In the unified routing architectur...