Title
A Scalable Architecture For High Available Security Switches
Abstract
This paper proposes a scalable and high available (HA) architecture for implementing cost effective security switches. In this architecture, each "security switch" consists of a traditional layer-2 switch and a "security switch engine (SSE)" which provides packet content inspection service. These two components are connected via a Gigabit Ethernet link. A mechanism is proposed to interconnect a group of "security switches" to provide the HA feature. A system of four security switches is implemented and the experimental results show that the HA function works successfully even only one SSE is active. The SSE is implemented with full intrusion prevention function on a standard high performance Industrial PC with the performance of 1.2Gbps for UDP packets and 400Mbps for TCP flows. Therefore the proposed security switch architecture can be realized in a very cost effective mechanism to provide Intranet protection. Index terms: Defense-in-Depth, Intrusion Prevention, High Availability (HA), Security Switch
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ICC.2006.255119
2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS, VOLS 1-12
Keywords
Field
DocType
inspection,cost effectiveness,intrusion prevention,computer architecture,switches,intrusion detection,packet switching,high availability,layer 2,national security
Deep content inspection,Computer science,Industrial PC,Intranet,Network packet,Computer network,Gigabit Ethernet,Packet switching,Intrusion detection system,Scalability,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nen-Fu Huang162072.93
Chih-Hao Chen200.34
Yuang-Fang Huang300.68
Yi-hsuan Feng4112.54
Chia-Nan Kao5748.20
Hsien-Wei Hung6344.42
Ming-Chang Shih712.05