Scalable forwarding tables for supporting flexible policies in enterprise networks

Shu Yang, Mingwei Xu, Dan Wang, Gautier Bayzelon, Jianping Wu

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Abstract

With increasing demands for more flexible services, the routing policies in enterprise network becomes much richer. This has placed a heavy burden to the current router forwarding plane to support the increasing number of policies, primarily due to the limited capacity in TCAM. This hinders the development of new network services. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a new forwarding table structure. It separates the functions of TCAM and SRAM and maximally utilizes the large & flexible SRAM. We progressively design a set of schemes, to maintain correctness, compress storage, and achieve line-card speeds. We also design incremental update algorithms that bring less accesses to memory. We present implementation designs and evaluate our scheme with a real implementation on a commercial router using real data sets. Our design does not require new devices. The evaluation results show that the performance of our forwarding tables is promising.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE INFOCOM 2014 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
PublisherIEEE
Pages208-216
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9781479933600
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Event33rd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2014 - Toronto, ON, Canada
Duration: 27 Apr 20142 May 2014

Conference

Conference33rd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2014
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto, ON
Period27/04/142/05/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science(all)
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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