Packet classification is an enabling function for a variety of Internet applications including
quality of service, security, monitoring, and multimedia communications. In order to classify a …

Due to the rapid growth of traffic in the Internet, backbone links of several gigabits per
second are commonly deployed. To handle gigabit-per-second traffic rates, the backbone …

Programmable switches have been touted as an attractive alternative for deploying network
functions (NFs) such as network address translators (NATs), load balancers, and firewalls …

Clicks is a new software architecture for building flexible and configurable routers. A Click
router is assembled from packet processing modules called elements. Individual elements …

We present PacketShader, a high-performance software router framework for general packet
processing with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration. PacketShader exploits the …

Pointer chasing is a fundamental operation, used by many important data-intensive
applications (eg, databases, key-value stores, graph processing workloads) to traverse …

Routers must perform packet classification at high speeds to efficiently implement functions
such as firewalls and QoS routing. Packet classification requires matching each packet …

In Layer Four switching, the route and resources allocated to a packet are determined by the
destination address as well as other header fields of the packet such as source address …

Routers classify packets to determine which flow they belong to, and to decide what service
they should receive. Classification may, in general, be based on an arbitrary number of …

The current Internet infrastructure has very few built-in protection mechanisms, and is
therefore vulnerable to attacks and failures. In particular, recent events have illustrated the …