Packet Forwarding Technologies

List Price: £48.99

Cat. #:
AU8057
ISBN:
978-0-8493-8057-0
No. of Pages:
440
Author/s:
Wu Weidong, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

This book explores packet forwarding concepts and implementation technologies. Following an introduction to the architecture of IP routers, the author discusses how IP address lookup is one of the major bottlenecks in high-performance routers. He describes the characteristics of a routing table and addresses the difficulty of the longest-matching prefix search. The remainder of the book deals with fast IP address lookup. Coverage includes the various available architectures, data structures, and algorithms based on software and hardware as well as detailed discussions on state-of-the-art innovations. The text also presents simulation results for comparing the performance between algorithms.

  • Includes basic packet forwarding concepts and contemporary implementation technologies in one detailed, comprehensive source
  • Presents numerous simulation results for comparing the performance between algorithms
  • Describes the characteristics of a routing table, which is the fundamental database used for IP address lookup
  • Explores recent developments in the field, including a pipelined application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) architecture, a dynamic data structure for a bursty access pattern, advanced caching techniques, and improved hash schemes
  • Examines the forwarding engine based on ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) and partitioning techniques based on the properties of a forwarding table
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