As a result of the development of internet and ICT (information-centric technology) advances
including mobile, cloud, social networking, big data, multimedia and the tendency towards …

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is considered promising to simplify network
management and enable research innovations based on the decomposition of the control …

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a general purpose programmable logic device
that can be configured by a customer after manufacturing to perform from a simple logic gate …

Big data applications often incur large costs in I/O, data transfer and copying overhead,
especially when operating in cloud environments. Since most such computations are …

Packet classification is a fundamental enabling function for various applications in switches,
routers and firewalls. Due to their performance and scalability limitations, current packet …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has received considerable attention in the past few
years, both from industry and academia, due to its potential for reducing capital and …

The packet classification is a fundamental process in provisioning security and quality of
service for many intelligent network-embedded systems running in the Internet of Things …

Due to the rapid growth of Internet, there is an increasing need for efficiently classifying
packets with many header fields in large rule sets. For example, in Software Defined …

OpenFlow switches are being deployed in SDN to enable a wide spectrum of non-traditional
applications. As a promising alternative to brutal force TCAMs, FPGA-based packet …

To support fast rule updates in SDN, the Open vSwitch implements Priority Sorting Tuple
Space Search (PSTSS) for its packet classifications. Although it has good performance on …