Title
Boundary cutting for packet classification
Abstract
Decision-tree-based packet classification algorithms such as HiCuts, HyperCuts, and EffiCuts show excellent search performance by exploiting the geometrical representation of rules in a classifier and searching for a geometric subspace to which each input packet belongs. However, decision tree algorithms involve complicated heuristics for determining the field and number of cuts. Moreover, fixed interval-based cutting not relating to the actual space that each rule covers is ineffective and results in a huge storage requirement. A new efficient packet classification algorithm using boundary cutting is proposed in this paper. The proposed algorithm finds out the space that each rule covers and performs the cutting according to the space boundary. Hence, the cutting in the proposed algorithm is deterministic rather than involving the complicated heuristics, and it is more effective in providing improved search performance and more efficient in memory requirement. For rule sets with 1000-100 000 rules, simulation results show that the proposed boundary cutting algorithm provides a packet classification through 10-23 on-chip memory accesses and 1-4 off-chip memory accesses in average.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TNET.2013.2254124
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Keywords
Field
DocType
telecommunication network routing,decision trees,heuristic programming,Internet
Decision tree,Subspace topology,Computer science,Network packet,Heuristics,Binary search algorithm,Classifier (linguistics),Packet classification,Heuristic programming,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
2
1063-6692
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.50
35
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hyesook Lim130826.04
Nara Lee2331.91
Geumdan Jin360.50
Jungwon Lee489095.15
Youngju Choi5111.29
Changhoon Yim625118.64