— The phenomenal growth of the Internet in the last decade and society’s increasing dependence on it has brought along, a flood of security attacks on the networking and compu...
—A firewall is a security guard placed between a private network and the outside Internet that monitors all incoming and outgoing packets. The function of a firewall is to exam...
—Parallel firewalls offer a scalable low latency design for inspecting packets at high speeds. Typically consisting of an array of m firewalls, these systems filter arriving p...
Michael R. Horvath, Errin W. Fulp, Patrick Wheeler
— Packet filtering plays a critical role in the performance of many network devices such as firewalls, IPSec gateways, DiffServ and QoS routers. A tremendous amount of research...
Packet classification is widely used in various network security and operation applications. Two of the main challenges are the increasing number of classification rules, amount o...