ROUTING TABLE MANAGER FOR THE

NEXT GENERATION OF IP ROUTERS

OBJECTIVE :

VIABLE PACKET FORWARDING

 TASK SHARING MECHANISM

TOAVOID MEMORY COMPLEXITY OF

CONTROL CARD

RTM UPDATES OF LINE CARD

 EXISTING ROUTER ARCHITECTURE:

CONROL CARD
ROUTING
PROTOCOL
RTM

DESTINATION ROUTE
ADRESS UPDATE
LOOKUP
LINE CARD
PACKET
FORWADING
PACKET IN PACKET OUT

COMPLEX SCHEDULING MECHANISM

PROPOSED ARCHITECTURE

ROUTING
PROTOCOL CONTROL CARD
RTM
PROCESS

SWITCHING FABRIC

MASTER
LINE LINE
LINE RTM CARD 2 RTM CARD N RTM
CARD

DATA PACKET IN DATA PACKET OUT

EXISTING SYSTEM DISADVANTAGE:
 CISCO CRS (new) SERIES
TBS 1.2

 CISCO 12000 (prev) SERIES

 ADDITION OF CONTROL CARD (COSTLIER)

 COMPLEX SCHEDULING MECHANISM

 NOT SCALABLE FOR LARGE NETWORK

ADVANTAGE OF PROPOSED SYSTEM:

 PETABIT THROUGHPUT ON SINGLE

CHASIS

 HIGLY SCALABLE

 HIGH AVAILABILITY

 ENHANCED ROUTING PROCESS

MODULES :

 SOURCE/ CLIENT MODULE

 ROUTER

LINE CARD
INGRESS PORT
CONTROL CENTRE/CARD
PACKET FORWARDING CLASS
EGRESS PORT
 DESTINATION /CLIENT MODULE
DATA FLOW DIAGRAM :

RECEIVING
CLIENT FILE SEND
DATA

SENDING FILE PACK

ROUTER SOCKET

INGRESS PORT

LINE CARD
ROUTE CALC CLASS MASTER LINE CARD
CLASS

ROUTER REQUEST PACKET SEND CLASS

CLASS

ROUTER CLASS
CONTROL CENTRE
CLASS PACKET FORWARD
CLASS

EGRESS PORT

TO CLIENT/TO ROUTER/ADVERTISING
CLIENT MODULE :

• FILE SEND

• FILE PACKET

• FILE RECIVED

• TCP/IP
INGRESS PORT

RECEIVE PACK

PACKET TYPE==“DATA” PACKET TYPE==“ADVERTISING”

ANALYSE
PACKET

LINE CARD ROUTER CLASS

LINE CARD

 MASTER LINE CARD UPDATE OTHER LINE

CARD

 ROUTER CALC CLASS

 PERIODIC UPDATE

N LINE CARD ARE MAINTAINED

ROUTER REQUEST CLASS :

CONTROL
MESSAGE
PACK

ROUTE
REQ
CLAS

ADVERTISE THE
ENTRY TO
PACK TO NEIGH
CONTROL CARD

MASTER LINE
CARD
EGRESS PORT :

 PACK TO CLIENT

 PACKFORWARING CLASS SEND THE PACK

TO OTHER ROUTER

 ADVERTISING PACK
INTER CONNECTING NETWORK

R1 R2

R5

R3 R4 R6 RTM

Router Line Card

Master Line card
C
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 6
REFERENCES:

 A. ZINI,CISCO IP ROUTING,ADDISON-
WELSEY,2002,PP.8011.

 O.HAGSAND,M.HIDELL, AND P.SJODIN,”DESIGN AND

IMPLEMENTATION OF A DISTRIBUTED ROUTER,”PROC 5TH
IEE INT’L. SYMP.SIGNAL PROCESSING AND
INFOTECH,DEC.2005,PP.227-32.

 H.J.CHAO AND B.LIU, HIGH PERFORMANCE SWITCHES AND

ROUTERS,WILEY-INTERSCIENCE,2007.

 CISCO SYSTEMS, “CISCO 12000 SERIES INTERNET

ROUTER ARCHITECTURE “,HTTP://WWW.CISCO.COM
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