Fast Updating Algorithms for TCAMs

Year
2001
Type(s)
Author(s)
D.Shah, P. Gupta
Source
Proceedings of Hot Interconnects IX, Stanford, CA, pp. 36-47, 2001
Url
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=903060

One popular hardware device for performing fast routing lookups and packet classification is a ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM). This paper proposes two algorithms to manage the TCAM such that incremental update times remain small in the worst case.