Dynamic routing tables using simple balanced search trees

  • Authors:

  • Yeim-Kuan Chang;Yung-Chieh Lin

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  • Venue:
  • ICOIN'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Information Networking: advances in Data Communications and Wireless Networks
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Various schemes for high-performance IP address lookups have been proposed recently Pre-computations are usually used by the special designed IP address lookup algorithms to improve the lookup speed and reduce the memory requirement However, the disadvantage of the pre-computation based schemes is when a single prefix is added or deleted, the entire data structure may need to be rebuilt Rebuilding the entire data structure seriously affects the lookup performance of a backbone router, and thus is not suitable for dynamic routing tables In this paper, we develop a new dynamic routing table algorithm The proposed data structure consists of a collection of balanced binary search trees The search, insertion, and deletion operations can be finished in O(logN) time, where N is the number of prefixes in a routing table Comparing with the best existing dynamic routing table algorithm, PBOB (Prefix Binary tree On Binary tree), our experiment results using the real routing tables show that the proposed scheme performs better than PBOB in terms of the lookup speed, insertion time, deletion time, and memory requirement.