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The Design of an Associative Processing system for Network Monitoring

Tripp, Gerald (2000) The Design of an Associative Processing system for Network Monitoring. Technical report. University of Kent (KAR id:22056)

Abstract

This paper looks at the design of an embedded processor to be used for network traffic monitoring. This would operate on the stream of data between a network interface and a host computer. Associative processing techniques are used to implement multiple finite state machines that can be used to monitor various network streams or protocol layers. Network packets are selectively captured and passed along with other status information to a host computer for further processing. A first version of such a processor has been designed and modeled in VHDL. The processor design has been simulated and performance figures are presented in this paper along with some sample monitoring programs. This study shows that associative processing appears to be an efficient way to implement fast network monitoring tools.

Item Type: Reports and Papers (Technical report)
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 27 Aug 2009 14:33 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:00 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/22056 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Tripp, Gerald.

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