Bit weaving: A non-prefix approach to compressing packet classifiers in TCAMs

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 488-500

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

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Packet classification; ternary content addressable memory (TCAM)

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION SCHEME; COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES; DE FACTO STANDARD; HIGH COSTS; HIGH POWER CONSUMPTION; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PACKET CLASSIFICATION; RANGE EXPANSION; TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORIES; TOPOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION;

COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); PACKET NETWORKS; TABLE LOOKUP;

WEAVING;

EID: 84859963086     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2011.2165323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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