• DocumentCode
    1205253
  • Title

    Enabling incremental updates to LC-trie for efficient management of IP forwarding tables

  • Author

    Pao, Derek ; Li, Yiu-Keung

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Eng. & Inf. Technol., City Univ. of Hong Kong, China
  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    5/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    245
  • Lastpage
    247
  • Abstract
    Level-compressed trie (LC-trie) is an efficient data structure for fast IP address lookup. However, the data structure needs to be rebuilt every time the table is updated. Consequently, the LC-trie algorithm is not suitable for application in a dynamic environment where frequent updates to the forwarding table are necessary. It is shown that with appropriate modifications to the data structure, incremental updates can be done efficiently.
  • Keywords
    table lookup; transport protocols; tree data structures; IP forwarding tables management; IP router; LC-trie algorithm; data structure; dynamic environment; fast IP address lookup; incremental deletion; incremental insertion; incremental updates; level compression; path compression; Data structures; Degradation; Heuristic algorithms; Information technology; Scalability; Throughput;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2003.812174
  • Filename
    1200197