EROS: an extensible software platform for network processor unit based routers

Ji Meng; Shao-hua Yu

doi:10.1117/12.631964

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5 December 2005 EROS: an extensible software platform for network processor unit based routers

Ji Meng, Shao-hua Yu

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Proceedings Volume 6022, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications III; 60222N (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.631964
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2005, Shanghai, China

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This paper presents an extensible routing software platform called EROS (Extensible Routing Operation System), which is a modularized and layered system. EROS innovatively utilizes Data Forwarding Adaptation Layer to hide concrete hardware forwarding details and thus can be used in different network processor unit (NPU) based systems. This paper describes the architecture design of EROS and introduces some of the implementing issues. The experiments on two different NPU-based distributed routers illustrate that EROS is logically independent from specific hardware platforms and could deliver excellent forwarding performance without any isolation on the protocol conformability.

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Ji Meng and Shao-hua Yu "EROS: an extensible software platform for network processor unit based routers", Proc. SPIE 6022, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications III, 60222N (5 December 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.631964

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