We consider the impact of different communication architectures on the performability (performance + availability) of cluster-based servers. In particular, we use a combination of ...
The Internet and the devices that connect to it consume a growing and significant amount of electricity. The utilization of desktop to switch Ethernet links is generally very low ...
Packet filtering plays a critical role in many of the current high speed network technologies such as firewalls and IPSec devices. The optimization of firewall policies is critica...
This paper presents and experimentally evaluates two parallelization strategies for the popular open-source Snort network intrusion detection system (NIDS). Snort identifies intr...
— IP-address lookup is a key processing function of Internet routers. The lookup is challenging because it needs to perform a longest prefix match. In this paper, we present our...