Design of a high-performance RSVP-TE hardware signaling accelerator

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1588-1595

  Wang, Haobo ^a   Veeraraghavan, Malathi ^a   Karri, Ramesh ^b   Li, Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized multiprotocol label switched (GMPLS); Hardware acceleration; Resource reservation protocol traffic engineering (RSVP TE); Signaling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SET THEORY; SIGNALING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

GENERALIZED MULTIPROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHED (GMPLS); HARDWARE-ACCELERATION; RESOURCE RESERVATION PROTOCOL - TRAFFIC ENGINEERING (RSVP-TE); SIGNALING PROTOCOLS;

SIGNAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 24344438262     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2005.852241     Document Type: Article

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