The evolution towards IP-aware access networks creates the possibility (and, indeed, the desirability) of additional network services, like firewalling or NAT, integrated into th...
Tom Verdickt, Wim Van de Meerssche, Koert Vlaeminc...
With the scaling of technology and higher requirements on performance and functionality, power dissipation is becoming one of the major design considerations in the development of...
Jia Yu, Wei Wu, Xi Chen, Harry Hsieh, Jun Yang 000...
Modern network processors support high levels of parallelism in packet processing by supporting multiple threads that execute on a micro-engine. Threads switch context upon encoun...
R. Collins, Fernando Alegre, Xiaotong Zhuang, Sant...
In this paper an analysis of a dynamically reconfigurable processor is presented. The network processor incorporates a processor and a number of coprocessors that can be connected...
Workstation clusters equipped with high performance interconnect having programmable network processors facilitate interesting opportunities to enhance the performance of parallel...
V. Santhosh Kumar, Matthew J. Thazhuthaveetil, R. ...
Network processors today consists of multiple parallel processors (microengines) with support for multiple threads to exploit packet level parallelism inherent in network workload...
—Hash tables are extensively used in networking to implement data-structures that associate a set of keys to a set of values, as they provide O(1), query, insert and delete opera...
Sailesh Kumar, Jonathan S. Turner, Patrick Crowley