Title :
Multiway range trees: scalable IP lookup with fast updates
Author :
Suri, Subhash ; Varghese, George ; Warkhede, P.R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, we introduce a new IP lookup scheme with worst-case search and update time of O(log n), where n is the number of prefixes in the forwarding table. Our scheme is based on a new data structure, a multiway range tree. While existing lookup schemes are good for IPv4, they do not scale well in both lookup speed and update costs when addresses grow longer as in the IPv6 proposal. Thus our lookup scheme is the first lookup scheme to offer fast lookups and updates for IPv6 while remaining competitive for IPv4
Keywords :
Internet; protocols; table lookup; telecommunication network routing; tree data structures; tree searching; IP lookup scheme; IPv4; IPv6; Internet; data structure; forwarding table; multiway range tree; prefixes; routing; search time; update time; Computer science; Data structures; Electronic switching systems; Internet; Multicast protocols; Proposals; Routing protocols; Scalability; Switches; Tree data structures;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2001. GLOBECOM '01. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7206-9
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2001.965852
