Longest prefix match and updates in range tries
Paper i proceeding, 2011

In this paper, we describe an IP-Lookup method for network routing. We extend the basic Range Trie data-structure to support Longest Prefix Match (LPM) and incremental updates. Range Tries improve on the existing Range Trees allowing shorter comparisons than the address width. In so doing, Range Tries scale better their lookup latency and memory requirements with the wider upcoming IPv6 addresses. However, as in Range Trees, a Range Trie does not inherently support LPM, while incremental updates have a performance and memory overhead. We describe the additions required to the basic Range Trie structure and its hardware design in order to store and dynamically update prefixes for supporting LPM. The proposed approach is prototyped in a Virtex4 FPGA and synthesized for 90-nm ASICs. Range Trie is evaluated using Internet Routing Tables and traces of updates. Supporting LPM roughly doubles the memory size of the basic Range Trie, which is still half compared to the second best related work. The proposed design performs one lookup per cycle and one prefix update every four cycles.

Longest prefix matches

Incremental updates

Memory overheads

Lookups

Plant extracts

Application specific integrated circuits

Network architecture

Computer architecture

Memory size

Lookup latency

Four cycles

Trie structures

IP lookup

Hardware design

Internet routing

Internet protocols

Memory requirements

Författare

Ioannis Sourdis

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Datorteknik

S. H. Katamaneni

TU Delft

Proceedings - 22nd IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, Santa Monica, 11-14 September 2011

1063-6862 (ISSN)

51-58
978-145771292-0 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Datorteknik

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

DOI

10.1109/ASAP.2011.6043236

ISBN

978-145771292-0

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