Programmable data plane technologies enable the systematic reconfiguration of the low-
level processing steps applied to network packets and are key drivers toward realizing the …

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 …

We describe the design and implementation of Open vSwitch, a multi-layer, open source
virtual switch for all major hypervisor platforms. Open vSwitch was designed de novo for …

Hypervisors use software switches to steer packets to and from virtual machines (VMs).
These switches frequently need upgrading and customization—to support new protocol …

Packet classification is an enabling technology for next generation network services and
often a performance bottleneck in high-performance routers. The performance and capacity …

Packet classification is a fundamental problem in computer networking. This problem
exposes a hard tradeoff between the computation and state complexity, which makes it …

The process of categorizing packets into" flows" in an Internet router is called packet
classification. All packets belonging to the same flow obey a predefined rule and are …

This paper introduces a classification algorithm called phHyperCuts. Like the previously best
known algorithm, HiCuts, HyperCuts is based on a decision tree structure. Unlike HiCuts …

Internet routers that operate as firewalls, or provide a variety of service classes, perform
different operations on different flows. A flow is defined to be all the packets sharing common …

As data centers grow larger and strive to provide tight performance and availability SLAs,
their monitoring infrastructure must move from passive systems that provide aggregated …