CoPTUA: Consistent Policy Table Update Algorithm for TCAM without Locking
IEEE Transactions on Computers
EaseCAM: An Energy and Storage Efficient TCAM-Based Router Architecture for IP Lookup
IEEE Transactions on Computers
SSA: a power and memory efficient scheme to multi-match packet classification
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Architecture for networking and communications systems
M-trie: an efficient approach to on-chip logic minimization
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
A power-efficient TCAM architecture for network forwarding tables
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
DPPC-RE: TCAM-Based Distributed Parallel Packet Classification with Range Encoding
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A TCAM-Based Parallel Architecture for High-Speed Packet Forwarding
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A TCAM-based distributed parallel IP lookup scheme and performance analysis
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Build shape-shifting tries for fast IP lookup in O(n) time
Computer Communications
An efficient approach to on-chip logic minimization
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Ternary CAM power and delay model: extensions and uses
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
CHAP: Enabling Efficient Hardware-Based Multiple Hash Schemes for IP Lookup
NETWORKING '09 Proceedings of the 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking Conference
Low power fast and dense longest prefix match content addressable memory for IP routers
Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE international symposium on Low power electronics and design
A Hybrid IP Forwarding Engine with High Performance and Low Power
ICCSA '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part II
A low-power ternary CAM with positive-feedback match-line sense amplifiers
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers
Compress the route table stored in TCAM by using memory filter
HPSR'09 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on High Performance Switching and Routing
A fast update scheme for TCAM-based IPv6 routing lookup architecture
APCC'09 Proceedings of the 15th Asia-Pacific conference on Communications
Small subset queries and bloom filters using ternary associative memories, with applications
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
CompactDFA: generic state machine compression for scalable pattern matching
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Advanced hashing schemes for packet forwarding using set associative memory architectures
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Power-Aware TCAMs for Routing Table Lookup
GREENCOM-CPSCOM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Green Computing and Communications & Int'l Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing
Low-power TCAMs for very large forwarding tables
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Low-leakage storage cells for ternary content addressable memories
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Space and speed tradeoffs in TCAM hierarchical packet classification
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
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TCAMs have been an emerging technology for packet forwarding in the networking industry. They are fast and easy to use. However, due to their inherent parallel structure they consume high power - much higher than SRAMs or DRAMs. A system using four TCAMs could consume upto 60 watts. The power issue is one of the chief disadvantages of TCAMs over RAM based methods for forwarding. For a system using multiple TCAMs we present methods to significantly reduce TCAM power consumption for forwarding, making it comparable to RAM based forwarding solutions. Using our techniques one can use a TCAM for forwarding at 3 to 4 watts worst case.Our techniques also have an interesting connotation to TCAM forwarding rates. For a static distribution of requests we present methods that make the forwarding rate of a system proportional to the number of TCAMs. So if a system has four TCAMs, one could achieve a four fold performance of that of a single TCAM for a static distribution of requests.