• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.602-610
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• 2001

In the MPLS(Multiprotocol Label Switching) forwarding paradigm, once a packet is assigned to a FEC(Forwarding Equivalence Class), no further header analysis is done by subsequent routers; all forwarding is driven by the labels. This has a number of advantages over conventional network layer forwarding. The MPLS LER(Label Edge Router) is located at the boundary of MPLS domain and plays a role in connecting with the existing Internet as an ingress or an egress router. That is, the MPLS LER as an ingress router assigns a label to a packet which enters the MPLS network from the Internet by analyzing its header and forwards to a corresponding next router in MPLS domain. As an egress router, the MPLS LER turns the packets out of the MPLS network by performing the reverse operation. In this paper, we analyze the traffic performance of an MPLS LER system and estimate the IP(Internet Protocol) packet processing capacity of the system using queueing model and simulation. It is found that the maximum IP packet processing capacity of the system is estimated by 420,000 through 460,000 packets/sec.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.11C
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• pp.1171-1177
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• 2002

In this paper, we proposed a high speed IP(Internet Protocol) packet forwarding engine of ATM(Asynchronous Transfer Mode) based label edge routers for POS(Packet over SONET) interface. The forwarding engine uses TCAM(Ternary Content Addressable Memory) for high performance lookup processing of the packet received from POS interface. We have accomplished high speed IP packet forwarding in hardware by implementing the functions of high speed IP header Processing and lookup control into FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array). The proposed forwarding engine has the functions of label edge routers as the lookup controller supports MPLS(Multiprotocol Label Switching) packet processing functionality.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.4B
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• pp.298-305
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• 2003

In this paper, we proposed a high performance lookup controller for IP packet forwarding engine of ATM based label edge routers. The lookup controller is designed to provide services such as MPLS, VPN, ELL, and RT services as well as the best effort. For high speed searching for IP addresses, we employed a TCAM based hardware search device not using traditional algorithmic approaches. We also implement lookup control functions into FPGA for fast processing of packet header and lookup control. The proposed lookup controller is designed to support differenciated services for users and to process in pipelined mechanism for performance improvement. A two-step search scheme is also applied to perform lookup for the key combined with multi-field of packet header. We found that the proposed lookup controller provides the performance of about 16M packets per second through simulations.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.447-454
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• 2003

The forwarding enging, which handles the incoming frames and forwards them to the appropriate outgoing interface, is the crucial factor of the router´s performance. As the MPLS label edge router provides the facility that it is capable of interworking with various kinds of networks, the forwarding engine should have the flexibility processing the corresponding types of frames from such network interfaces. In order to support the flexibility, we implement the forwarding engine for the MPLS LER with ATM interfaces based on the programmable Ethernet packet processor. By exploiting instinct loop-back functionality of Ethernet packet processor, our forwarding engine handles and forwards the frames from/to ATM interfaces. The performance of our forwarding engine is evaluated by experiments on the effect of looping frames back and the number of Ethernet packet processor´s instructions.