NPCryptBench: A cryptographic benchmark suite for network processors

Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on MEmory Performance: DEaling with Applications, Systems and Architecture, MEDEA 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 49-56

  Yue, Yao ^a   Lin, Chuang ^a   Tan, Zhangxi ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptographic algorithm; Network processor; NPCryptbench; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CRYPTOGRAPHY; HARDWARE SECURITY; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MULTITASKING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS; MULTITHREAD SYSTEMS; NETWORK APPLICATIONS; NETWORK PROCESSOR; NPCRYPTBENCH; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SOFTWARE OPTIMIZATION;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 85015520396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1152779.1147359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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