• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.10
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• pp.162-168
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• 2007

TCAM(Ternary content-addressable memory) has been widely used to perform fast routing lookup. It is able to accomplish the LPM(longest prefix matching) search in O(1) time without considering the number of prefixes and their lengths. As compared to software-based solutions, especially for IPv6, TCAM can oner sustained throughput and simple system architecture. However, There is no research for Priority-TCAM which can assign priority to each memory block. This paper addresses the difference or priority-TCAM compared to the existing TCAM and proposes CAO-PA algerian to manage the lookup table efficiently.