Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines Napa California April 21-April 23 ISBN: 0-7695-0375-6
The evolution of computer networking technology will likely require hardware that is flexible enough to adapt to changing standards while maintaining the highest possible performance. Much research has recently been done in active networks, which increase network flexibility by allowing the routers to be reprogrammed, often at the cost of lower throughput. A reconfigurable router implemented on a Custom Computing Machine (CCM) can provide the flexibility required for active networking while approaching the high throughput of inflexible application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)-based routers. This paper presents an implementation of a prototype reconfigurable router on the Wildforce platform. The prototype implements IPv4 routing with a throughput of up to 576 Mbps, using a stream-based approach that facilitates dynamic reconfiguration.
Index Terms:
Networking, Stream-based, Reconfigurable, Hardware, Active networks
Citation:
Jason R. Hess, David C. Lee, Scott J. Harper, Mark T. Jones, Peter M. Athanas, "Implementation and Evaluation of a Prototype Reconfigurable Router," fccm, pp.44, Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 1999 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||