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Design And Implementation Of A High Performance Network Processor With Dynamic Workload Management, Padmaja Duggisetty Nov 2015

Design And Implementation Of A High Performance Network Processor With Dynamic Workload Management, Padmaja Duggisetty

Masters Theses

Internet plays a crucial part in today's world. Be it personal communication, business transactions or social networking, internet is used everywhere and hence the speed of the communication infrastructure plays an important role. As the number of users increase the network usage increases i.e., the network data rates ramped up from a few Mb/s to Gb/s in less than a decade. Hence the network infrastructure needed a major upgrade to be able to support such high data rates. Technological advancements have enabled the communication links like optical fibres to support these high bandwidths, but the processing speed at the nodes …


Securing Network Processors With Hardware Monitors, Kekai Hu Nov 2015

Securing Network Processors With Hardware Monitors, Kekai Hu

Doctoral Dissertations

As an essential part of modern society, the Internet has fundamentally changed our lives during the last decade. Novel applications and technologies, such as online shopping, social networking, cloud computing, mobile networking, etc, have sprung up at an astonishing pace. These technologies not only influence modern life styles but also impact Internet infrastructure. Numerous new network applications and services require better programmability and flexibility for network devices, such as routers and switches. Since traditional fixed function network routers based on application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) have difficulty keeping pace with the growing demands of next-generation Internet applications, there is an …