摘要:
A filter method for designating one of a plurality of packet filter rules contained in a router for routing a packet of information through a network, each packet characterized as having parameters, the method comprising: generating one or more partitioned sets, each partitioned set associated with a different packet parameter with each partition of a set having zero or more associated filter rules; generating a vector corresponding to each of the parameters, the vector defining structure indicating one or more potential filter rules to be applied; comparing each parameter of the received packet with each partition of a corresponding partitioned set and determining one or more potential filter rules to be applied to the packet for each parameter; and determining from each of the vectors one or more identical potential filter rules associated with each vector, one of the identical filter rules capable of being applied to the received packet, with the rule to be applied being the rule of greatest priority.
摘要:
A network of nodes interconnected by links, such as a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) ring network, is modeled by a delayed graph in which propagation delay between nodes is accounted for. Given the delayed graph, a traffic matrix for an admissible traffic pattern is scheduled over a frame period. Scheduling of the traffic matrix formulates a set of scheduling constraints based on the delays and decomposes the traffic matrix into a set of transmission matrices. Each of the set of transmission matrices is scheduled over the frame period.
摘要:
A scalable, high-speed router for routing packets of information through an interconnected network comprises an interface for receiving a packet containing header and data information; a device for extracting routing information from the header of an arrived packet and generating a corresponding header packet for the arrived packet; a memory device for storing the data information of the arrived packet at predetermined memory locations; a device for processing the corresponding header packet to determine a route for the arrived packet and assigning packet forwarding information to the header packet; and, a device for retrieving the data information from the predetermined memory locations and forwarding both the data and header packet containing the packet forwarding information to the interface for routing the packet to a further destination in accordance with the packet forwarding information. The processing device includes devices performing filtering, route-table lookup and flow identification functions and which devices are organized in a pipelined fashion for successive, high-speed operations on the header packet. The router ensures that the arrived packet is forwarded in accordance with any quality of service requirements and flow specifications.
摘要:
The invention includes a method and apparatus for notification and delivery of messages to mobile users using a secure client associated with a user device. The secure client includes a power module, a communication module, a storage module, and an alert module. The power module powers the client device independent of a power state of the user device. The communication module receives a wake-up message and responsively triggers the secure client to switch from an inactive state to an active state without changing the power state of the user device, initiates a secure connection with a secure gateway in response to the wake-up message, and requests and receives a user message from a messaging application using the secure connection. The storage module stores the received message independent of the power state of the user device. The alert module activates an alert to indicate that the message is available.
摘要:
A network of nodes interconnected by links, such as a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) ring network, is modeled by a delayed graph in which propagation delay between nodes is accounted for. Given the delayed graph, a traffic matrix for an admissible traffic pattern is scheduled over a frame period. Scheduling of the traffic matrix formulates a set of scheduling constraints based on the delays and decomposes the traffic matrix into a set of transmission matrices. Each of the set of transmission matrices is scheduled over the frame period.
摘要:
A packet network employs routers that determine network routing based on quality of service (QoS) provisioning parameters and network topology information. QoS provisioning parameters are provided to each router from a network management database, and the network topology information is determined from a link state database of the router. The link state database may include network topology information collected by the router in accordance with the open shortest path protocol (OSPF). A network link, router, or other node failure initiates a new path-selection process. First, a temporary set of provisioning entries may be determined with a shortest path first (SPF) routing method. Then, the network packet flows may be classified into packet flows, real-time and non-real-time, and then as packet flows that require reserved bandwidth or that may be multiplexed. A multicommodity flow (MCF) routing method is then employed to determine an optimized set of candidate provisioning entries for the packet flows that may be multiplexed. The MCF routing method determines new routing for the packet flows based on QoS provisioning commitments as parameters. The MCF routing method determines the new routing based on an optimization criterion, such as maximized revenue. Once the new routing is determined, routing of network traffic is enabled by converting the provisioning entries into filter rules, which are then loaded into the packet classifier of the router.
摘要:
The invention includes a method and apparatus for notification and delivery of messages to mobile users using a secure client associated with a user device. The secure client includes a power module, a communication module, a storage module, and an alert module. The power module powers the client device independent of a power state of the user device. The communication module receives a wake-up message and responsively triggers the secure client to switch from an inactive state to an active state without changing the power state of the user device, initiates a secure connection with a secure gateway in response to the wake-up message, and requests and receives a user message from a messaging application using the secure connection. The storage module stores the received message independent of the power state of the user device. The alert module activates an alert to indicate that the message is available.
摘要:
A load-balanced network architecture is disclosed in which a traffic flow at a given network node is split into a plurality of parts, and the parts are distributed to respective ones of the plurality of nodes that are designated as participating in a load balancing process for the traffic flow. Each of at least a subset of the participating nodes receiving one of the parts routes at least a portion of its received part to one or more destination nodes.
摘要:
A packet filter for a router performs generalized packet filtering allowing range matches in two dimensions, where ranges in one dimension at least one dimension is defined as a power of two. To associate a filter rule with a received packet EP, the packet filter employs a 2-dimensional interval search and memory look-up with the filter-rule table. Values of sm of filter-rule rm=(sm,dm) in one dimension are desirably ranges that are a power of two, such as prefix ranges, which are represented by a binary value having a “length” defined as the number of bits to of the prefix. The dm may be single points, ranges defined as prefix ranges, and/or ranges defined as continuous ranges. The packet filter employs preprocessing of the filter-rules based on prefix length as a power of 2 in one dimension and decomposition of overlapping segments into non-overlapping intervals in the other dimension to form the filter-rule table. A preprocessing algorithm searches in one dimension through filter rules and arranges the corresponding filter-rule rectangle segments according to prefix length. Then, in the other dimension, the overlapping filter rectangle segments are decomposed into non-overlapping intervals, and the highest priority filter-rule overlapping each non-overlapping interval is associated with that interval. A filter-rule table is then constructed with entries ordered according to prefix length and non-overlapping interval, each entry associated with a particular filter-rule. A packet classification algorithm then matches the field or other parameter information in the packet to the filter-rule table entries to identify the filter-rule rectangle associated with the filter-rule to be applied to the packet.
摘要:
A packet filter method and apparatus for a router employs an algorithm that decomposes a set of n filter rules of a k-dimensional space into sets of rule segments associated with non-overlapping intervals in each dimension. Such packet filter may be employed for layer four switching applications. Bit-parallel processing may be employed to compare each interval with corresponding fields of a packet received by the router. Bitmaps defined by the sets of rule segments, and so related to the corresponding filter rules are associated with the intervals. The interval bitmaps are combined to form a filter rule bitmap that identifies and associates one or more filter rules with the packet. For a case storing complete bitmaps for all intervals, the packet filter employs k*n2+O(n) bits of memory for each dimension, [log(2n)]+1 comparisons per dimension which may be performed in parallel, and [n/w] memory accesses for a pairwise combining operation, where w is a width of a bitmap used to identify the filter rule. Incremental memory read operations are employed to reduce memory space requirements of this packet filter case, allowing the packet-filter operation to be optimized in accordance with time complexity and memory space. Since a dominant contributing factor of execution time is off-chip memory accesses, availability of on-chip memory and the use of modified bitmap storage using interval bitmap pointers for incremental memory read operations significantly increases the number of filter rules that may be searched and applied within a given time constraint. For this algorithm employing incremental memory read operations, memory requirements may be reduced to O(n log n) bits while increasing the execution time by only a constant value, when log n≦w.