This paper discusses a register bank assignment problem for a popular network processor--Intel's IXP. Due to limited data paths, the network processor has a restriction that ...
IP forwarding is one of the main bottlenecks in Internet backbone routers, as it requires performing the longest-prefix match at 10Gbps speed or higher. IPv6 forwarding further ex...
The combination of high-performance processing power and flexibility found in network processors (NPs) has made them a good solution for today’s packet processing needs. Similar...
Sophisticated middlebox services–such as network monitoring and intrusion detection, DDoS mitigation, worm scanning, XML parsing and protocol transformation–are becoming incre...
Abstract. Our Token Based Switch (TBS) implementation shows that a packetbased admission control system can be used to dynamically select a fast end-to-end connection over a hybrid...
Mihai-Lucian Cristea, Leon Gommans, Li Xu, Herbert...