Packet forwarding is the relaying of packets from one network segment to another by nodes in a computer network. The simplest forwarding model‍—‌unicasting‍—‌involves...

forward packets to its listening socket. Port forwarding may be distinguished by the following specific types: local, remote, and dynamic port forwarding. Local...

Reverse-path forwarding (RPF) is a technique used in modern routers for the purposes of ensuring loop-free forwarding of multicast packets in multicast...

the network layer is layer 3. The network layer is responsible for packet forwarding including routing through intermediate routers. The network layer...

packet forwarding in modern router architectures; instead, they are used to generate the information for a simpler forwarding table. This forwarding table...

intermediate network nodes by specific packet forwarding mechanisms. Packet forwarding is the transit of network packets from one network interface to another...

or dynamically obtained from routing protocols to select specific packet forwarding methods to direct traffic to the next available intermediate network...

Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP) is a 3GPP protocol used on the Sx/N4 interface between the control plane and the user plane function, specified...

assigned to data packets. Packet-forwarding decisions are made solely on the contents of this label, without the need to examine the packet itself. This allows...

and builds a forwarding information base (FIB) to be used by the forwarding plane. Forwarding plane: This unit forwards the data packets between incoming...

based on a field that indicates the forwarding priority of the packet, as well as the preference of the packet to be dropped in the presence of congestion...

and mark packets as belonging to a specific class. DiffServ-aware routers implement per-hop behaviors (PHBs), which define the packet-forwarding properties...

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protocols, to another data link. In the packet networks, this act of forwarding is referred to as packet forwarding and is performed by network switches...

A forwarding equivalence class (FEC) is a term used in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) to describe a set of packets with similar or identical characteristics...

Echo packets is sent, and the other endpoint then sends these back to the sender via its forwarding plane. This is used to test the forwarding path on...

switches use ASICs to build and maintain the forwarding information base and to perform packet forwarding at wire speed. One way to think of a layer-2...

packets to another router or node. Additionally, the routers will use reverse-path forwarding to ensure that there are no loops for packet forwarding...

sometimes called the forwarding plane or user plane, defines the part of the router architecture that decides what to do with packets arriving on an inbound...

P4 is a programming language for controlling packet forwarding planes in networking devices, such as routers and switches. In contrast to a general purpose...

Pipeline forwarding (PF) ."applies to packet forwarding in computer networks the basic concept of pipelining, which has been widely and successfully used...

Equal-cost multi-path routing (ECMP) is a routing strategy where packet forwarding to a single destination can occur over multiple best paths with equal...

applications name data and data names will directly be used in network packet forwarding; consumer applications would request desired data by its name, so...

Call forwarding, or call diversion, is a telephony feature of all telephone switching systems which redirects a telephone call to another destination,...

process of packet forwarding by routers. Although IPv6 packet headers are at least twice the size of IPv4 packet headers, processing of packets that only...

presented by real-time data path applications such as wire speed packet forwarding. Dataflow architectures that are deterministic in nature enable programmers...

In IP-based computer networks, virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) is a technology that allows multiple instances of a routing table to co-exist within...

the eNodeB) as a reference to node specific parameters that control packet forwarding treatment, for example scheduling weight, admission thresholds and...

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