A Fast IP Lookup Scheme for Longest-Matching Prefix

  • Authors:
  • Lih-Chyau Wuu;Shou-Yu Pin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCNMC '01 Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Computer Networks and Mobile Computing (ICCNMC'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

One of the key design issues for the next generation IP routers is the IP Lookup mechanism.IP lookup is an important action in router that is to find the next hop of each incoming packet with a longest-prefix-match address in the routing table.In this paper, we propose an IP lookupmechanism with the number of memory access for an IP lookup being one in the best case and being four in the worst case.The forwarding table needed by our mechanism issmall enough to fit in the SRAM.For example, a largerouting table with 40000 routing entries can be compacted to a forwarding table of 260Kbytes in our scheme.