Fast and scalable packet classification

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 560-571

  Van Lunteren, Jan ^a   Engbersen, Ton ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Associative memories; Communication system routing; Communication systems; Internet; Routing; Search methods; Table lookup; Tree data structures; Tree searching

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DIGITAL STORAGE; INTERNET; ROUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

TREE SEARCHING;

PACKET SWITCHING;

EID: 0037947385     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2003.810527     Document Type: Review

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