Upgrading a power grid to a smart grid is a challenging task. For example, since power grids
were originally developed to support unidirectional communications, the migration process …

Deep packet inspection (DPI) is widely used in content-aware network applications such as
network intrusion detection systems, traffic billing, load balancing, and government …

Regular expression matching serves as a key functionality of modern network security
applications. Unfortunately, it often becomes the performance bottleneck as it involves …

Deep packet inspection is playing an increasingly important role in the design of novel
network services. Regular expressions are the language of choice for writing signatures, but …

Deterministic finite automata (DFAs) are widely used to perform regular expression matching
in linear time. Several techniques have been proposed to compress DFAs in order to reduce …

Modern network devices need to perform deep packet inspection at high speed for security
and application-specific services. Finite Automata (FAs) are used to implement regular …

Regular expression (RE) matching is a core component of deep packet inspection in
modern networking and security devices. In this paper, we propose the first hardware-based …

Regular expression (regex) with modern extensions is one of the most popular string
processing tools. However, poorly-designed regexes can yield exponentially many matching …

Test-driven development (TDD) is an agile software development strategy that addresses
both design and testing. This paper describes a controlled experiment that examines the …

Modern network intrusion detection systems need to perform regular expression matching at
line rate in order to detect the occurrence of critical patterns in packet payloads. While …