School of Computing

Network traffic monitoring - an architecture using associative processing.

Gerald Tripp

Technical Report 7-99, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, September 1999.

Abstract

This paper investigates possible associative processing architectures for use in the implementation of a real time network traffic monitoring system. The proposed solution is a simple associative mono-processor based on a small number of electronic components including state-of-the-art ternary content addressable memory. This would enable a large number of finite state machines to be implemented which could be used to track the activity of multiple data channels at several protocol layers. The system would receive a stream of packets of data from a network and could be programmed to generate output event messages consisting of selectively captured network data or other information.

Download publication 800 kbytes (PostScript)

Bibtex Record

@techreport{904,
author = {Gerald Tripp},
title = {Network Traffic Monitoring - an architecture using associative processing.},
month = {September},
year = {1999},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1999/904},
    institution = {Computing Laboratory, University of Kent},
    number = {7-99},
}

School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF

Enquiries: +44 (0)1227 824180 or contact us.

Last Updated: 21/03/2014