On the benefit of caching traffic flow data in the link buffer

authored by

Konstantin Septinus, Christian Grimm, Vladislav Rumyantsev, Peter Pirsch

Abstract

In this paper we review local caching of TCP/IP flow context data in the link buffer or a comparable other local buffer. Such connection cache is supposed to be a straight-forward optimization strategy for look-ups of flow context data in a network processor environment. The connection cache can extend common table-based look-up schemes and also be implemented in SW. On the basis of simulations with different IP network traces, we show a significant decrease of average search times. Finally, well-suited cache and table sizes are determined, which can be used for a wide range of IP network systems.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Microelectronic Systems
Leibniz Universität IT Services (LUIS)

Type

Conference contribution

Pages

2-11

No. of pages

10

Publication date

2008

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science, General Computer Science

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70550-5_2 (Access: Closed)