Hardware Accelerators Targeting a Novel Group Based Packet Classification Algorithm
Joint Authors
Grewal, G.
Areibi, Shawki
Ahmed, O.
Source
International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-33, 33 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-05-30
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
33
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Packet classification is a ubiquitous and key building block for many critical network devices.
However, it remains as one of the main bottlenecks faced when designing fast network devices.
In this paper, we propose a novel Group Based Search packet classification Algorithm (GBSA) that is scalable, fast, and efficient.
GBSA consumes an average of 0.4 megabytes of memory for a 10 k rule set.
The worst-case classification time per packet is 2 microseconds, and the preprocessing speed is 3 M rules/second based on an Xeon processor operating at 3.4 GHz.
When compared with other state-of-the-art classification techniques, the results showed that GBSA outperforms the competition with respect to speed, memory usage, and processing time.
Moreover, GBSA is amenable to implementation in hardware.
Three different hardware implementations are also presented in this paper including an Application Specific Instruction Set Processor (ASIP) implementation and two pure Register-Transfer Level (RTL) implementations based on Impulse-C and Handel-C flows, respectively.
Speedups achieved with these hardware accelerators ranged from 9x to 18x compared with a pure software implementation running on an Xeon processor.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ahmed, O.& Areibi, Shawki& Grewal, G.. 2013. Hardware Accelerators Targeting a Novel Group Based Packet Classification Algorithm. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-33.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-490114
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ahmed, O.…[et al.]. Hardware Accelerators Targeting a Novel Group Based Packet Classification Algorithm. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-33.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-490114
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ahmed, O.& Areibi, Shawki& Grewal, G.. Hardware Accelerators Targeting a Novel Group Based Packet Classification Algorithm. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-33.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-490114
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-490114