Computer Science – Networking and Internet Architecture
Scientific paper
2010-05-12
International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications 2.3 (2010) 13-26
Computer Science
Networking and Internet Architecture
14 Pages, IJCNC 2010
Scientific paper
10.5121/ijcnc.2010.2302
Routers are one of the important entities in computer networks specially the Internet. Forwarding IP packets is a valuable and vital function in Internet routers. Routers extract destination IP address from packets and lookup those addresses in their own routing table. This task is called IP lookup. Internet address lookup is a challenging problem due to the increasing routing table sizes. Ternary Content-Addressable Memories (TCAMs)are becoming very popular for designing high-throughput address lookup?engines on routers: they are fast, cost-effective and simple to manage. Despite the TCAMs speed, their high power consumption is their major drawback. In this paper, Multilevel Enabling Technique (MLET), a power efficient TCAM based hardware architecture has been proposed. This scheme is employed after an Espresso-II minimization algorithm to achieve lower power consumption. The performance evaluation of the proposed approach shows that it can save considerable amount of routing table's power consumption.
Berangi Reza
Mahini Alireza
Mahini Hamidreza
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