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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2011
Hwan-jo Heo, Daejeon-si, KR;
Nam-seok Ko, Daejeon-si, KR;
Woo-sug Jung, Daejeon-si, KR;
Sung-jin Moon, Daejeon-si, KR;
Sung-kee Noh, Daejeon-si, KR;
Jong-dae Park, Daejeon-si, KR;
Byung-ho Yae, Daejeon-si, KR;
Hwan-Jo Heo, Daejeon-si, KR;
Nam-Seok Ko, Daejeon-si, KR;
Woo-Sug Jung, Daejeon-si, KR;
Sung-Jin Moon, Daejeon-si, KR;
Sung-Kee Noh, Daejeon-si, KR;
Jong-Dae Park, Daejeon-si, KR;
Byung-Ho Yae, Daejeon-si, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A distributed packet processing apparatus capable of distributing packet load across a plurality of packet processing engines is provided. The distributed packet processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing engines each configured to process allocated packets, a first tag generating unit configured to allocate an input packet to a processing engine, which has a processing engine index corresponding to a tag index for the input packet, among the plurality of processing engines, a second tag generating unit configured to calculate a tag index for an output packet, and an index conversion unit configure to convert the tag index for the output packet to one processing engine index among a plurality of processing indexes for the plurality of the processing engines and allocates the output packet to a processing engine having the one processing engine index such that loads are distributed among the plurality of processing engines.