Space and speed tradeoffs in TCAM hierarchical packet classification

Journal of Computer and System Sciences

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-121

  Kesselman, Alexander ^a   Kogan, Kirill ^b   Nemzer, Sergey ^c   Segal, Michael ^d  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Compugen ^*  (Israel)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Lookups and space tradeoff; TCAM hierarchical packet classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPLEX NETWORKS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; LOGIC GATES;

CLASSIFICATION HIERARCHIES; LOOKUPS; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PACKET CLASSIFICATION; SOFTWARE-BASED SOLUTIONS; TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY; TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION;

TERNARY CONTENT ADRESSABLE MEMORY;

EID: 84869496298     PISSN: 00220000     EISSN: 10902724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcss.2012.06.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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