Karthikeyan Sankaralingam

PLUG: Flexible Lookup Modules for Rapid Deployment of New Protocols in High-speed Routers

By: 
Lorenzo De Carli, Yi Pan, Amit Kumar, Cristian Estan, and Karthikeyan Sankaralingam
Appears in: 
CCR October 2009

New protocols for the data link and network layer are being proposed to address limitations of current protocols in terms of scalability, security, and manageability. High-speed routers and switches that implement these protocols traditionally perform packet processing using ASICs which offer high speed, low chip area, and low power. But with inflexible custom hardware, the deployment of new protocols could happen only through equipment upgrades.

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