Software-Defined Networking (SDN) allows control applications to install fine-grained
forwarding policies in the underlying switches. While Ternary Content Addressable Memory …

Efficient algorithmic solutions for multi-field packet classification have been a challenging
problem for many years. This problem is becoming even worse in the era of Software …

Software switches are being deployed in SDN to enable a wide spectrum of non-traditional
applications. The popular Open vSwitch uses a variant of Tuple Space Search (TSS) for …

Efficient packet classification is a core concern for network services. Traditional multi-field
classification approaches, in both software and ternary content-addressable memory …

High-performance and dynamically updatable hardware architectures for multi-field packet
classification have regained much interest in the research community. For example, software …

Ternary content addressable memories (TCAMs) are frequently used for fast matching of
packets against a given ruleset. While TCAMs can achieve fast matching, they are plagued …

With an increasing demand for flexible management in software-defined networks (SDNs), it
becomes critical to minimize the network policy update time. Although major SDN controllers …

Packet classification is an enabling function for a variety of Internet applications such as
access control, quality of service and differentiated services. Decision-tree and …

Packet classification is a critical component in network appliances. Software Defined
Networking and cloud computing update the rulesets frequently for flexible policy …

Efficient packet classification is a core concern for network services. Traditional multi-field
classification approaches, in both software and ternary content-addressable memory …