SwitchBlade: A platform for rapid deployment of network protocols on programmable hardware

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 183-194

  Anwer, Muhammad Bilal ^a   Motiwala, Murtaza ^a   Tariq, Mukarram Bin ^a   Feamster, Nick ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

NetFPGA; Network virtualization

Indexed keywords

CUSTOM PROTOCOLS; CUSTOMIZABLE; DATA PLANES; DATA-PLANE; DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS; EXACT MATCHING; EXCEPTION HANDLING; HARDWARE MODULES; HASH VALUE; LINE RATE; LONGEST-PREFIX MATCHING; NETFPGA; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; ON THE FLIES; OPENFLOW SWITCHES; PACKET HEADER; PRODUCTION NETWORK; PROGRAMMABILITY; PROGRAMMABLE HARDWARE; RAPID DEPLOYMENTS; RUNNING-IN; RUNTIMES;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INTERNET PROTOCOLS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

HARDWARE;

EID: 84874732333     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 19435819     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1851275.1851206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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