Research Article

Hardware Accelerators Targeting a Novel Group Based Packet Classification Algorithm

Table 8

Classification time and speedup achieved.

Benchmark Desktop Impulse-C Handel-C ASIP
Time (ms)Time (ms) Speedup (x)Time (ms) Speedup (x)Time (ms) Speedup (x)

ACL (10 K) 192.1 24.15 7.96 21.24 9.04 11.26 17.07
FW (10 K) 163.9 16.91 8.08 16.88 8.49 8.35 16.87
IPC (10 K) 190.6 23.58 9.69 22.45 9.71 11.26 19.62

Average 182.2 21.558.58 20.19 9.08 10.3 17.85