Several approaches to mitigating the Forwarding Information Base (FIB)
overflow problem were developed and software solutions using FIB aggregation
are of particular interest. One of the greatest concerns to deploy these
algorithms to real networks is their high running time and heavy computational
overhead to handle thousands of FIB updates every second. In this work, we
manage to use a single tree traversal to implement faster aggregation and
update handling algorithm with much lower memory footprint than other existing
work. We utilize 6-year realistic IPv4 and IPv6 routing tables from 2011 to
2016 to evaluate the performance of our algorithm with various metrics. To the
best of our knowledge, it is the first time that IPv6 FIB aggregation has been
performed. Our new solution is 2.53 and 1.75 times as fast as
the-state-of-the-art FIB aggregation algorithm for IPv4 and IPv6 FIBs,
respectively, while achieving a near-optimal FIB aggregation ratio