Title
Towards hardware accelerated software routers
Abstract
We propose an alternative router design to fill the gap between PC-based open source software routers and commercial high-end routers. Our hardware accelerated software router uses commodity PC hardware running an open source software router for the control path, and couples it with programmable switching hardware by delegating most of the packet forwarding to the switch. We describe a prototype implementation and show that it is capable of handling the traffic requirements of an existing carrier aggregation network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1921206.1921209
StudentWorkshop@CoNEXT
Keywords
Field
DocType
alternative router design,control path,pc-based open source software,commercial high-end routers,programmable switching hardware,software routers,towards hardware,commodity pc hardware,packet forwarding,software router,open source software router,existing carrier aggregation network,hardware accelerator
Computer science,Computer network,Software,Core router,Router,Router design,Computer hardware,Software router,Open source software,One-armed router,Packet forwarding
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.46
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nadi Sarrar137723.12
Anja Feldmann24935596.02
Steve Uhlig353748.45
Rob Sherwood41462128.08
Xin Huang520.46