With the current massive amount of traffic that is going through the internet, internet service
providers (ISPs) and networking service providers (NSPs) are looking for various ways to …

Deep packet inspection (DPI) helps Internet service providers in efforts to profile networked
applications. By relying on DPI systems, Internet service providers may apply different …

Packet content scanning at high speed has become extremely important due to its
applications in network security, network monitoring, HTTP load balancing, etc. In content …

There is a growing demand for network devices capable of examining the content of data
packets in order to improve network security and provide application-specific services. Most …

Modern deep packet inspection systems use regular expressions to define various patterns
of interest in network data streams. Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) are commonly used …

The importance of network security has grown tremendously and a collection of devices
have been introduced, which can improve the security of a network. Network intrusion …

Construction and deployment of finite state automata from the regular expressions might
results in huge overhead and results in the state explosion problem which is in need of large …

The number of alleged crimes in computer networks had not increased until a few years ago.
Real-time analysis has become essential to detect any suspicious activities. Network …

Fang Yu Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley
Professor Randy H. Katz, Chair In this dissertation, we developed high speed packet …

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an innovative approach to networking architecture
that opens up avenues to create a whole new class of networking functionality. While data …