Signature matching, which includes packet classification and content matching, is the most expensive operation of a signature-based network intrusion detection system (NIDS). In t...
The ability to classify packets according to pre-defined rules is critical to providing many sophisticated value-added services, such as security, QoS, load balancing, traffic acco...
Bandwidth demands of communication networks are rising permanently. Thus, the requirements to modern routers regarding packet classification are rising accordingly. Conventional al...
While the problem of high performance packet classification has received a great deal of attention in recent years, the research community has yet to develop algorithmic methods t...
Haoyu Song, Jonathan S. Turner, Sarang Dharmapurik...
Energy efficiency has become a critical concern in designing high speed packet classification engines for next generation routers. Although TCAM-based solutions can provide high th...
CAMs are the most popular practical method for implementing packet classification in high performance routers. Their principal drawbacks are high power consumption and inefficient...
Ed Spitznagel, David E. Taylor, Jonathan S. Turner
– Packet classification on multiple header fields is one of the basic techniques used in network devices such as routers and firewalls, and usually the most computation intensive...
In this paper, a novel packet classification scheme optimized for multi-core network processors is proposed. The algorithm, Explicit Cuttings (ExpCuts), adopts a hierarchical spac...
—Packet classification is an enabling function in Internet routers for a variety of Internet applications. In order to classify Internet packets into flows, Internet routers must...
Packet classification is an important function in a router’s line-card. Although many excellent solutions have been proposed in the past, implementing high speed packet classifi...