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Towards fast regular expression matching in practice

  • Tsinghua University

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Abstract

Regular expression matching is popular in today's network devices with deep inspection function, but due to lack of algorithmic scalability, it is still the performance bottleneck in practical network processing. To address this problem, our method first partition regular expression patterns into simple segments to avoid state explosion, and then compile these segments into a compact data structure to achieve fast matching. Preliminary experiments illustrate that our matching engine scales linearly with the size of the real-world pattern set, and outperforms state-of-the-art solutions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the SIGCOMM 2013 and Best Papers of the Co-Located Workshops
Pages531-532
Number of pages2
Edition4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
EventAnnual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, ACM SIGCOMM 2013 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 12 Aug 201316 Aug 2013

Publication series

NameComputer Communication Review
Number4
Volume43
ISSN (Print)0146-4833
ISSN (Electronic)1943-5819

Conference

ConferenceAnnual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, ACM SIGCOMM 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period12/08/1316/08/13

Keywords

  • deep inspection
  • dfa
  • regular expression matching

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