Space-efficient TCAM-based classification using Gray coding

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-30

  Bremler Barr, Anat ^a   Hendler, Danny ^b  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gray code; packet classification; range encoding; TCAM

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; ENCODING SCHEMES; EXPANSION RATIO; GRAY CODES; GRAY CODING; GRAY ENCODING; HIGH THROUGHPUT; HIGH-SPEED; LONG RANGE; PACKET CLASSIFICATION; PACKET HEADER; RANGE ENCODING; RANGE EXPANSION; REAL-LIFE DATABASE; SOFTWARE-BASED SOLUTIONS; TCAM; TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORIES;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EXPANSION; LOGIC GATES; PACKET NETWORKS;

TERNARY CONTENT ADRESSABLE MEMORY;

EID: 82555192197     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2010.267     Document Type: Article

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