Tilman Wolf

Title: Design Issues for High-Performance Active Routers

Authors: Tilman Wolf

Abstract: Modern networks require the flexibility to support new protocols and network services without changes in the underlying hardware. Routers with general-purpose processors can perform data path packet processing using software that is dynamically distributed. However, custom processing of packets at link speeds requires immense computational power. This paper proposes a design of a scalable, high-performance active router. Multiple network processors with cache and memory on a single application specific integrated circuit are used to overcome the limitations of traditional single processor systems. The proposed design is used as a vehicle for studying the key issues that must be resolved to allow active networking to become a mainstream technology. Benchmark measurements are used to put the design in relation to actual application demands.

Published: Tilman Wolf and Jonathan S. Turner, "Design issues for high-performance active routers," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 404-409, Mar. 2001.

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BibTeX:
@article{Wolf:DIH01,
   author  = {Tilman Wolf and Turner, Jonathan S.},
   title   = {Design Issues for High-Performance Active Routers},
   journal = {IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication},
   volume  = 19,
   year    = 2001,
   pages   = {404--409},
   month   = mar,
   number  = 3
 }

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