LOARD: Layered Open Architecture for Router Distributed
LOARD：分层的开放分布式路由器结构

Most researches about next generation router focus on the extensible architecture is basing on software. But more and more implements use ASIC and network processor as their data plane solution. The way that separates router 's system to USER and KERNEL cannot handle all the problems may occur in distributed environment. This paper pro- poses an architecture that is platform independent to serve the requirements of distributed communication and extensi- bility. This architecture called LOARD uses virtual path and virtual interface to provide a transparent platform for both control plane and data plane. It is suitable for next generation routers, which are distributed, paralleling, wire speed, open and extensible.