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Dynamic Network Flow Classification with Hardware offloading

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Pieroux, Alexandre ULiège
Promotor(s) : Mathy, Laurent ULiège
Date of defense : 7-Sep-2017/8-Sep-2017 • Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/3298
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Title : Dynamic Network Flow Classification with Hardware offloading
Author : Pieroux, Alexandre ULiège
Date of defense  : 7-Sep-2017/8-Sep-2017
Advisor(s) : Mathy, Laurent ULiège
Committee's member(s) : Barbette, Tom ULiège
Leduc, Guy ULiège
Donnet, Benoît ULiège
Language : English
Number of pages : 48
Keywords : [fr] Network classification offloading
Discipline(s) : Engineering, computing & technology > Computer science
Target public : Researchers
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Complementary URL : https://github.com/AlexandrePieroux/DNFC
Institution(s) : Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique
Degree: Master en sciences informatiques, à finalité spécialisée en "computer systems and networks"
Faculty: Master thesis of the Faculté des Sciences appliquées

Abstract

[fr] Nowadays, network applications and connected devices are calling for a better management of the network infrastructures. With the growth of network load, efficient network classification is playing a key role for providing quality of service.

In this document we present a network classification scheme that allow to contextualize a packet in its flow. The designed classifier is composed of four components: a static classifier, a dynamic classifier, a tag system and queues. The static classifier is responsible for matching the packets to the provided classification rules. The tag mechanism is elaborated to give to the user a mean of retrieving information about the flow of the processed packet. The dynamic classifier associate the packets with their tags and a queue system is used to forward the results to the user.

The implementation is provided under the form of a C library that ease the use of it in network low level applications. The design of it allow a flexible modularity and portability. The results show that our solution give scalability when a large amount of rules is used and allow fast dynamic classification. The use of lock-free algorithms to handle multithreading and concurrency allow to perform the classification of several packets simultaneously with efficiency. The designed tag mechanism allow an easy consultation of the flow of a processed packet. The hardware capabilities offered by advanced network hardware is studied and matched with the need of the solution, enabling possibilities of offloading it for efficiency.

Network classification is a problem hard to solve efficiently, many solutions are available depending on the situation and the requirements. In today's network, portable and scalable solutions are important and need a particular attention. The implementation of our solution give the opportunity for efficient dynamic network classification that ease the processing of packets in their contexts.


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  • Pieroux, Alexandre ULiège Université de Liège > Master sc. informatiques, à fin.

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  • Barbette, Tom ULiège Université de Liège - ULg > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Systèmes informatiques répartis et sécurité
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  • Leduc, Guy ULiège Université de Liège - ULg > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Réseaux informatiques
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  • Donnet, Benoît ULiège Université de Liège - ULg > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Algorithmique des grands systèmes
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