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20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Volume 2 (AINA'06)
A Multi-dimension Rule Update in a TCAM-based High-Performance Network Security System
Vienna, Austria
April 18-April 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2466-4
Hae-Jin Jeong, Chungnam National University, Korea
Il-Seop Song, Chungnam National University, Korea
Taeck-Geun Kwon, Chungnam National University, Korea
Yoo-Kyoung Lee, Electronics Telecommunication Research Institute, Korea
Network security systems such as firewall and intrusion prevention system (IPS) have packet classification rule to allow or protect the network traffic. In addition, they are forced to provide multi-gigabit speed in order to deploy the current Internet backbone which requires gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10 GbE, OC-192, etc. In order to support highperformance packet classification in the network security system, a Ternary Content Addressable Memory, i.e., TCAM accelerates flow identification with classification rules. The TCAM, however, matches the first rule among multiple matched rules, so the ordering of TCAM entries is strictly kept while rules are added or deleted. To keep the ordering in a TCAM, some existing TCAM entries should move to other empty space which impacts the data path processing in the network security system. In this paper, we have proposed a rule update algorithm which reduces the number of TCAM entry movement by the partial ordering of TCAM entry groups instead of the sequential ordering. Our simulation results justify the significant decrement of movement operations where we have applied both generated random rules and real IPS rules, i.e., Snort rules.
Citation:
Hae-Jin Jeong, Il-Seop Song, Taeck-Geun Kwon, Yoo-Kyoung Lee, "A Multi-dimension Rule Update in a TCAM-based High-Performance Network Security System," aina, vol. 2, pp.62-66, 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Volume 2 (AINA'06), 2006
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