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Bolt: Scalable and Cost-Efficient Multistring Pattern Matching With Programmable Switches

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Multi-string pattern matching is a crucial building block for many network security applications and thus of great importance. Since every byte of a packet has to be inspected by a… Click to show full abstract

Multi-string pattern matching is a crucial building block for many network security applications and thus of great importance. Since every byte of a packet has to be inspected by a large set of patterns, it often becomes a bottleneck of these applications and dominates the performance of an entire system. Many existing studies have been devoted to alleviating this performance bottleneck either by algorithm optimization or hardware acceleration. However, neither one provides the desired scalability and costs that keep pace with the drastic increase in network bandwidth and traffic today. To address these issues, in this paper, we present BOLT, a scalable and cost-efficient multi-string pattern matching system leveraging the capability of emerging programmable switches. BOLT combines the following techniques: (1) an efficient state encoding scheme to fit a large number of strings into the limited memory on a programmable switch; (2) a variable $k$ -stride transition mechanism to increase the throughput significantly with the same level of memory cost; and (3) a compact pattern2rule mapping method to accommodate multiple co-existing strings in one rule. We implement a prototype of BOLT and make its source code publicly available. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that BOLT can provide multi-hundred Gbps throughput and scales well with various pattern sets and workloads.

Keywords: pattern matching; cost; bolt scalable; programmable switches; cost efficient; scalable cost

Journal Title: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Year Published: 2023

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