Packet Classification by Multilevel Cutting of the Classification Space: An Algorithmic-Architectural Solution for IP Packet Classification in Next Generation Networks

Table 1

Rules table of a 5-tuple classifier.

	Source address	Destination address	Source port	Destination port	Protocol	Flow ID
Rule 1	100.1.20.122/23	230.11.123.145/23	100–1024	*	TCP	ID 1
Rule 2	120.0.30.1/20	147.77.20.54/21	100–1024	100–1024	UDP	ID 2
Rule 3	107.3.44.110/24	115.112.101.2/21	*	1024–65535	TCP	ID 3
$\cdots$	$\cdots$	$\cdots$	$\cdots$	$\cdots$	$\cdots$	$\cdots$
Rule N	155.11.33.99/16	133.10.212.134/20	*	*	*	ID N