GPU-based NFA implementation for memory efficient high speed regular expression matching

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 129-139

  Zu, Yuan ^a   Yang, Ming ^a   Xu, Zhonghu ^a   Wang, Lin ^a   Tian, Xin ^a   Peng, Kunyang ^a   Dong, Qunfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

CUDA; Deep packet inspection; GPU; NFA; Pattern matching; Regular expression matching

Indexed keywords

CUDA; DEEP PACKET INSPECTION; GPU; NFA; REGULAR-EXPRESSION MATCHING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; DESIGN; INTRUSION DETECTION; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PATTERN MATCHING;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84863362945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145816.2145833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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