A model of router for next generation Internet services

Abstract

With the Internet's on-going evolution from a best effort network to a network with service differentiation, an important topic of interest is the problems what the router architecture will be and how many functions will be implemented in router. In this paper, we analyze characteristics of the next generation Internet services, give an abstract architecture, and present a novel, parallel and high-scalable control framework for next-generation IP routers. We can only modify the classifier to extend new services. It support the co-existence of best effort service and future services.