Packet classification is crucial for the Internet to provide more value-added services and
guaranteed quality of service. Besides hardware-based solutions, many software-based …

Modern network processor systems require the ability to adapt their processing capabilities
at runtime to changes in network traffic. Traditionally, network processor applications have …

Gigabit Ethernet is a popular broadband technology for good reason. It not only can transfer
large amounts of data through a large network at high speeds, but it also is a mature …

Digest caches have been proposed as an effective method to speed up packet classification
in network processors. In this paper, we show that the presence of a large number of small …

The performance of network processors depends on the architecture of the chip, the network
processing application and the workload characteristics. In this thesis, we model the memory …

This work deals with an architectural framework to enable application-layer packet
processing for lowered processing latency and enhanced throughput. Creating an" Ethereal …

Network speed and bandwidth are steadily outpacing processor speeds preventing servers
from scaling up to 40Gbps Ethernet network interface cards. Experiments have shown …

Traditionally, distributed systems requiring high dependability were designed using custom
hardware with massive amounts of redundancy. Not only the nodes, but the network, was …