An on-chip IP address lookup algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 873-885

  Sun, Xuehong ^a   Zhao, Yiqiang Q ^b  

^a CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Hardware; IP address lookup; On chip memory; Range search; Tree data structures

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; DATA COMPRESSION; DATA STRUCTURES; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; STATIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; TABLE LOOKUP; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

IP ADDRESS LOOKUP; ON-CHIP MEMORY; RANGE SEARCH; TREE DATA STRUCTURES;

INTERNET;

EID: 22944459170     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2005.107     Document Type: Article

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