Increased bandwidth in the Internet puts great demands on network routers; for example, to route minimum sized Gigabit Ethernet packets, an IP router must process about packets pe...
One of the key design issues for the new generation IP routers is the route lookup mechanism. For each incoming IP packet, the IP routing requires to perform a longest prefix match...
Nen-Fu Huang, Shi-Ming Zhao, Jen-Yi Pan, Chi-An Su