Speeding up data processing on firewall using FPGA
Tran Ngoc Son, Nguyen Van Manh, Dinh Viet Phuong · Journal of Science and Technology on Information security · 2024
Abstract— This article focuses on one of the methods to improve the data processing performance of firewalls by taking advantage of the power of FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) chips in analyzing packets at the network layer instead of CPU. FPGA chips provide a flexible and powerful platform for deploying network firewall data processing functions, ranging from IP address filtering, access policy inspection, data classification to virus checking. Additionally, the research team conducted theoretical experimental research on the chip Xilinx XC7A200T, one of the popular and high-performance chip models. The results of this research are the premise for researching and designing a high-speed firewall model using FPGA.