Topological transformation approaches to TCAM-Based packet classification

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 237-250

  Meiners, Chad R ^a   Liu, Alex X ^a   Torng, Eric ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardware based packet classification; range encoding; ternary content addressable memory (TCAM)

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN COMPRESSION; HYPERRECTANGLES; LARGE POWER; NEW APPROACHES; PACKET CLASSIFICATION; POWER CONSUMPTION; RANGE ENCODING; RANGE EXPANSION; RE-ENCODING; SPACE COMPRESSION; SPACE REDUCTIONS; TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORIES; TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY (TCAM); TOPOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION;

ASSOCIATIVE STORAGE; CLASSIFIERS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); PACKET NETWORKS; SEMANTICS; TERNARY CONTENT ADRESSABLE MEMORY; TOPOLOGY;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 79951944810     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2010.2061864     Document Type: Article

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