Title
Energy-efficient non-volatile TCAM search engine design using priority-decision in memory technology for DPI
Abstract
TCAM-based search engines are widely used in regular expression matching across multiple packets. However, the use of priority encoder results in increased energy consumption of pattern updates and search operations. This work, proposes a promising memory technology, called Priority-Decision in Memory (PDM), which eliminates the need for priority encoders and removes restrictions on ordering, meaning that patterns can be stored in an arbitrary order without sorting their lengths. Moreover, we present a Sequential Input-State Search (SIS) scheme to disable the mass of redundant search operations in state segments, based on the analysis distribution of hex signatures in a virus database. Experimental results demonstrate that PDM-based technology can improve update energy consumption of nvTCAM search engines by 36%~67% because most of the energy in the latter is used to reorder. By adopting the SIS-based method to avoid unnecessarily search operations in a TCAM array, the search energy reduction is around 64% of nvTCAM search engines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2744769.2744836
DAC
Keywords
Field
DocType
Priority-decision in memory, Non-volatile TCAM, search engine architecture, Memory structure, Deep packet inspection
Regular expression,Search engine,Content-addressable memory,Computer science,Efficient energy use,Sorting,Real-time computing,Search-oriented architecture,Encoder,Energy consumption
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0738-100X
6
0.44
References 
Authors
12
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hsiang-Jen Tsai1253.17
Keng-Hao Yang2273.21
Yin-Chi Peng3112.89
Chien-Chen Lin4594.53
Ya-Han Tsao591.15
Meng-Fan Chang645945.63
Tien-Fu Chen7890123.83