A memory efficient, 100 Gb/sec MAC classification engine

Author

Papaefstathiou, V. ; Papaefstathiou, I.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci., Foundation of Res. & Technol. Hellas, Crete

fYear

2005

fDate

17-17 Nov. 2005

Lastpage

471

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a classification engine employed at Ethernet´s MAC Layer which uses an innovative hashing scheme and internal replacement of MAC vendor IDs; the hash based classification engine (HBCE) compacts the MAC address tables and supports extremely high speed decisions. Its very low memory requirements make it a very promising candidate for Ethernet equipments that would need to support classification at data link layer and at multi-Gigabit per second network speeds. Moreover HBCE can also so be used very efficiently in lower-bandwidth wireless environments

Keywords

access protocols; file organisation; local area networks; 100 Gbit/s; Ethernet; MAC classification engine; data link layer; hash based classification engine; memory requirements; Cams; Computer science; Engines; Ethernet networks; Intrusion detection; Media Access Protocol; Memory management; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2005. 30th Anniversary. The IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2421-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2005.9

Filename

1550891

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2664448