Practical network-wide compression of IP routing tables

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 446-458

  Karpilovsky, Elliott ^a   Caesar, Matthew ^b   Rexford, Jennifer ^c   Shaikh, Aman ^d   Van Der Merwe, Jacobus ^e  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ATandT LabsResearch ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Network architecture and design; network management; network protocols

Indexed keywords

GROWTH TRENDS; INTERNET ROUTERS; IP ROUTING; MEMORY CONSUMPTION; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; MEMORY MANAGER; MISCONFIGURATIONS; NETWORK OPERATOR; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; ROUTER MEMORY; ROUTING TABLE;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 84870975609     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2012.081012.120246     Document Type: Article

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