ATOM: a system for building customized program analysis tools
PLDI '94 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1994 conference on Programming language design and implementation
End-to-end arguments in system design
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Neural methods for dynamic branch prediction
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices
Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices
NetBench: a benchmarking suite for network processors
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Observed structure of addresses in IP traffic
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
Stateful Intrusion Detection for High-Speed Networks
SP '02 Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection
A high-level programming environment for packet trace anonymization and transformation
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
NpBench: A Benchmark Suite for Control plane and Data plane Applications for Network Processors
ICCD '03 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Design
Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices, Volume 2
Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices, Volume 2
Snort - Lightweight Intrusion Detection for Networks
LISA '99 Proceedings of the 13th USENIX conference on System administration
Elephant: Network Intrusion Detection Systems that Don't Forget
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 09
The impact of traffic aggregation on the memory performance of networking applications
MEDEA '04 Proceedings of the 2004 workshop on MEmory performance: DEaling with Applications , systems and architecture
CommBench-a telecommunications benchmark for network processors
ISPASS '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software
Frame shared memory: line-rate networking on commodity hardware
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architecture for networking and communications systems
A next generation internet state management framework
CoNEXT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference
MultiLayer processing - an execution model for parallel stateful packet processing
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
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The explosive and robust growth of the Internet owes a lot to the "end-to-end principle", which pushes stateful operations to the end-points. The Internet grew both in traffic volume, and in the richness of the applications it supports. The growth also brought along new security issues and network monitoring applications. Edge devices, in particular, tend to perform upper layer packet processing. A whole new class of applications require stateful processing.In this paper we study the impact of stateful networking applications on architectural bottlenecks. The analysis covers applications with a variety of statefulness levels. The study emphasizes the data cache behavior. Nevertheless, we also discuss other issues, such as branch prediction and ILP. Additionally, we analyze the architectural impact through the TCP connection life. Our results show an important memory bottleneck due to maintaining the states. Moreover, depending on the target of the application, the memory bottleneck may be concentrated within a set of packets or distributed along the TCP connection lifetime.