VERA: An extensible router architecture

2001 IEEE Open Architectures and Network Programming Proceedings, OPENARCH 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 3-14

  Karlin, S ^a   Peterson, L ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; COTS; Internet Router; QoS; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; HARDWARE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SCHEDULING;

COTS; HARDWARE COMPONENTS; INTERNET ROUTERS; ROUTER ARCHITECTURE; ROUTER DESIGN; VIRTUAL ROUTERS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84962191129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OPNARC.2001.916834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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