Title :
NPSE: a high performance network packet search engine
Author :
Soni, Naresh ; Richardson, Nick ; Huang, Lun-Bin ; Rajgopal, Suresh ; Vlantis, George
Author_Institution :
STMicroelectronics, San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes the NPSE, a high-performance SRAM-based network packet search engine which has the primary application of supporting IPv4 and IPv6 forwarding. It is based on a high-speed hardware implementation of a tree-based storage and retrieval algorithm, which is memory and power-efficient compared to traditional CAM-based look-up methods.
Keywords :
Internet; SRAM chips; routing protocols; search engines; table lookup; trees (mathematics); IPv4; IPv6; Internet; NPSE; SRAM; high-speed hardware; network packet search engine; packet routing; table lookup; tree algorithm; Cams; Costs; Hardware; Internet; Random access memory; Routing; Search engines; Software algorithms; Table lookup; Telecommunications;
Conference_Titel :
Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2003
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1870-2
DOI :
10.1109/DATE.2003.1253809
