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Title : Computing Power Saving Paths using TCAM Power Ratio
Author(s) : Shankar Raman
Balaji Venkat Venkataswami
Prof.Kamakoti Veezhinathan
Filename : draft-mjsraman-panet-tcam-power-ratio-00.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 2013-01-05
Abstract:
A power saving scheme for switching of TCAM banks of fine granularity
is discussed in [ID-TCAM-POWER-EFF]. This scheme switches of TCAM
banks of fine granularity and their corresponding SRAM banks
depending on the occupancy of routes and their rewrites within the
TCAM of a intelligent router line card (where one or more such TCAM
entities along with their SRAM banks may reside) by using an
algorithm specified in [ID-TCAM-POWER-EFF]. This takes care of
switching of TCAM and SRAM banks within a router's line card and
correspondingly saves power when the traffic matrix is not large with
respect to the routes the packets lookup where the occupancy of such
routes is low in the line card. This is with reference to both single
and multi-chassis devices. The algorithm specified therein tends to
switch off banks which are not in use. The aim of this draft is to
use the device level characteristic in the form of a TCAM Power Ratio
and disseminate it as a metric within an area or an Autonomous system
(where multiple such areas exist within an AS) to compute power
saving paths through the set of routers where the TCAM-POWER-RATIO is
low. The TCAM-POWER-RATIO is arrived at by dividing the number of
bits in the TCAM banks that are switched off by the Total Available
TCAM bank space in bits. This ratio is then subjected to the SPF
algorithm as in a link state protocol like OSPF or IS-IS with
available utilization on the links also being a factor. This way
those routers that have more TCAM banks switched off are avoided and
those with higher power consumption but with available bandwidth are
used hence not increasing the total power consumed within the area
and hence within the AS.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mjsraman-panet-tcam-power-ratio
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mjsraman-panet-tcam-power-ratio-00
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