Deep Packet Inspection on Commodity Hardware using FastFlow
Marco Danelutto, Luca Deri, Daniele De Sensi, Massimo Torquati · Advances in parallel computing · 2014
The analysis of packet payload is mandatory for network security and traffic monitoring applications. The computational cost of this activity pushed the industry towards hardware-assisted deep packet inspection (DPI) that have the disadvantage of being more expensive and less flexible.