Leveraging parallelism for multi-dimensional packet classification on software routers

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 38, Issue 1 SPEC. ISSUE, 2010, Pages 227-238

  Ma, Yadi ^a   Banerjee, Suman ^a   Lu, Shan ^a   Estan, Cristian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NetLogic Microsystems   (United States)

Author keywords

Packet classification; Parallelism; Storm

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION RATES; CORE MACHINES; CORE ROUTERS; FAST CLASSIFICATION; MULTI-CORE DESKTOP; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PACKETS; PACKET CLASSIFICATION; PROCESSOR RESOURCES; RULE SET; RULES BASED; SHORT DURATIONS; SOFTWARE ROUTERS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE-BASED; SOFTWARE-BASED SOLUTIONS; SPEED-UPS; TRAFFIC SAMPLING; XEON PROCESSORS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PACKET NETWORKS; ROUTERS; STORMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954930621     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1811099.1811065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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