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    TCP reassembly for signature-based network intrusion detection systems
    (2012-10-02)
    Thinh, Tran Ngoc
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    Tomiyama, Shigenori
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    Vu, Tran Huy
    Rapid development of network makes it a very important and vulnerable part of every field of life. Many intrusion detection systems are developed to protect the network using signature-based matching technique. For connection oriented protocols, such as Transmission Control Protocol, the data should be reassembled before being scanned by the matching engine. Several techniques are introduced to reassemble TCP packets on FPGA. However, they have some disadvantages such as inefficient memory, unscalable system, and unsupported complex TCP connections. In this paper, we propose a multi-linked-list approach and a combination of edge buffering scheme for TCP reassembly, which helps detecting cross packets intrusion signatures. Our architecture not only supports TCP connections with up to 4 concurrent holes, but also uses memory more efficiently than others. The experimental results show that our system can hold about 256K connections simultaneously and support up to 46K out-of-sequence connections with only 64MB DRAM. © 2012 IEEE.
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    PAMELA: Pattern matching engine with Limited-time updAte for NIDS/NIPS
    (2009-01-01)
    Thinh, Tran Ngoc
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    Tomiyama, Shigenori
    Several hardware-based pattern matching engines for network intrusion/prevention detection systems (NIDS/NIPSs) can achieve high throughput with less hardware resources. However, their flexibility to update new patterns is limited and still challenging. This paper describes a PAttern Matching Engine with Limited-time updAte (PAMELA) engine using a recently proposed hashing algorithm called Cuckoo Hashing. PAMELA features on-the-fly pattern updates without reconfiguration, more efficient hardware utilization, and higher performance compared with other works. First, we implement the improved parallel exact pattern matching with arbitrary length based on Cuckoo Hashing and linkedlist technique. Second, while PAMELA is being updated with new attack patterns, both stack and FIFO are utilized to bound insertion time due to the drawback of Cuckoo Hashing and to avoid interruption of input data stream. Third, we extend the system for multi-character processing to achieve higher throughput. Our engine can accommodate the latest Snort rule-set, an open source NIDS/NIPS, and achieve the throughput up to 8.8 Gigabit per second while consuming the lowest amount of hardware. Compared to other approaches, ours is far more efficient than any other implemented on Xilinx FPGA architectures. Copyright © 2009 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.