A Fault-Tolerant Bloom Filter for Deep Packet Inspection

  • Authors:
  • Myeong-Hyeon Lee;Yoon-Hwa Choi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PRDC '07 Proceedings of the 13th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Bloom filters can be used for various networking applications to inspect network packet payload to search for predefined signature strings. Hardware-based Bloom filters have drawn a great attention due to the fact that they provide constant lookup times at the cost of small false positives. A fault in Bloom filters, however, may render the system unable to function correctly since no false negatives cannot be guaranteed. In this paper, we present a faulttolerant Bloom filter which tolerates faults in such a way that no false negatives can be guaranteed. The proposed architecture is simple enough to be implemented without any significant hardware overhead. Moreover, fault detection and recovery can be made during normal operation with negligible time overhead.