An Efficient and Scalable Pattern Matching Scheme for Network

Security Applications

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan R.O.C.

Authors: Tsern-Huei Lee; Nai-Lun Huang

Publisher: Computer Communications and Networks, 2008. ICCCN '08. Proceedings of 17th International Conference on3-7 Aug. 2008 Page(s)1 - 7

Present: Chia-Ming ,Chang Date: 3, 4, 2009

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1. Introduction 2. Architecture 3. Experimental results 4. Conclusion

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Introduction (1/3)

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Introduction (2/3)

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Introduction (3/3)

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1. Introduction 2. Architecture 3. Experimental results 4. Conclusion

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Architecture (1/3) Σ= {a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h} Σ are sequentially encoded as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6 and 7

Y= {abcda (0), abba (1), cda (2), cabc (3)}.

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Architecture (2/3)

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Architecture (3/3)

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1. Introduction 2. Architecture 3. Experimental results 4. Conclusion

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Experimental results (1/3)

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Experimental results (2/3)

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Experimental results (3/3)

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1. Introduction 2. Architecture 3. Experimental results 4. Conclusion

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we first present an idea to improve the throughput performance of the banded-row format AC and then propose a scalable implementation of the Aho-Corasick pattern matching algorithm.

our proposed implementation achieves 39.7% reduction in memory requirement for 5,000 pattern strings randomly selected from ClamAV signatures and 16.1% reduction in processing time on the average for scanning various types of files.