Applying Bloom Filter Addressing in Metro Ethernet Network

This work proposes the use of bloom filters for forwarding decision in Metro Ethernet Networks. The proposed bloom filter is short enough to be placed in a standard Ethernet header. To make it possible two novel false positive mitigation techniques are introduced. All the proposed ideas can be implemented on off-the-shelf devices as shown at the end of this paper. At the same time the efficiency of the techniques is proved by the simulation results.