Layered Protocol Wrappers for Internet Packet Processing in Reconfigurable Hardware

Authors

Florian Braun, Washington University in St Louis
John Lockwood, Washington University in St. Louis
Marcel Waldvogel, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

2001-01-01

Filename

WUCS-01-10.PDF

Technical Report Number

WUCS-01-10

Abstract

The ongoing increases of line speed in the Internet backbone combined with the need for increased functionality of network devices presents a major challenge. These demands call for the use of reprogrammable hardware to provide the required flexible, high-speed functionality, at all network layers. The Field Programmable Port Extender (FPX) provides such an environment for development of networking components in reprogrammable hardware. We present a framework to streamline and simplify networking applications that process ATM cells, AAL5 frames, Internet Protocol (IP) packets and UDP datagrams directly in hardware.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K71G0JG8

Recommended Citation

Braun, Florian; Lockwood, John; and Waldvogel, Marcel, "Layered Protocol Wrappers for Internet Packet Processing in Reconfigurable Hardware" Report Number: WUCS-01-10 (2001). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/252