Chapter 34. Network Packet Processing in Reconfigurable Hardware
John W. LockwoodWashington University in St. Louis and Stanford University
This chapter will show, through an example, how networking systems have been built with reconfigurable hardware. It will describe how data can be switched, routed, buffered, processed, scanned, and filtered over networks using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
The chapter begins by describing the mechanisms by which Internet packets are segmented into frames and cells for transmission across a network. Internet Protocol (IP) wrappers are introduced, and it is shown how they simplify the implementation of large packet-processing systems. Next, a framework for building modular systems that implement Internet ...
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