OBIWAN - An Internet Protocol Router in Reconfigurable Hardware

Authors

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

Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

2001-01-01

Filename

WUCS-01-11.PDF

Technical Report Number

WUCS-01-11

Abstract

The ongoing exponential increase of line speed in the Internet and combined with the uncountable requests 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 functionaltiy. The Field Programmable Port Extender (FPX) provides such an environment for development of networking components in reprogrammable hardware. We present the high-speed IP routing components in reprogrammable hardware. We present the high-speed IP routing module "OBIWAN" (Optimal Binary search IP lookup for Wide Area Networks) built on top of an IP processing framework.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7WQ020C

Recommended Citation

Braun, Florian; Waldvogel, Marcel; and Lockwood, John, "OBIWAN - An Internet Protocol Router in Reconfigurable Hardware" Report Number: WUCS-01-11 (2001). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/253