An efficient regular expressions compression algorithm from a new perspective

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2129-2137

  Liu, Tingwen ^a,b   Yang, Yifu ^a   Liu, Yanbing ^a,c   Sun, Yong ^a,c   Guo, Li ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c National Engineering Laboratory for Information Security Technologies   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL REPRESENTATION; COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; DEEP PACKET INSPECTION; HIGH-SPEED; MATCHING SPEED; MEMORY REDUCTION; MEMORY USAGE; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION;

NETWORK SECURITY; PATTERN MATCHING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79960849586     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2011.5935024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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