Techniques for Processing TCP/IP Flow Content in Network Switches at Gigabit Line Rates

Authors

David Vincent Schuehler, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

2004-12-01

Filename

wucse-2004-72.pdf

Technical Report Number

WUCSE-2004-72

Abstract

The growth of the Internet has enabled it to become a critical component used by businesses, governments and individuals. While most of the traffic on the Internet is legitimate, a proportion of the traffic includes worms, computer viruses, network intrusions, computer espionage, security breaches and illegal behavior. This rogue traffic causes computer and network outages, reduces network throughput, and costs governments and companies billions of dollars each year. This dissertation investigates the problems associated with TCP stream processing in high-speed networks. It describes an architecture that simplifies the processing of TCP data streams in these environments and presents a hardware circuit capable of TCP stream processing on multi-gigabit networks for millions of simultaneous network connections. Live Internet traffic is analyzed using this new TCP processing circuit.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7ZK5F02

Recommended Citation

Schuehler, David Vincent, "Techniques for Processing TCP/IP Flow Content in Network Switches at Gigabit Line Rates" Report Number: WUCSE-2004-72 (2004). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/1042