Project Summary and Status Oct 11th

Project: Smart Rule Cache
Working with Suman and Dheeraj

Objective: Create a classification system using a small amount of specialized hardware (to reduce cost) while maintaining line speed classification of packets similar to the hardware based solutions. This is accomplished by caching the rules used for classification in unique ways using a cache manager.

Status:
Received cache manager program from Dheeraj, need to investigate the time it takes for this to run. The hardware component will be classifying packets, there is an amount of time between when the cache manager is done collecting samples to when it creates the new set of rules and updates the cache. We want to see what effect this time will have on the hit rate since the packets that go through during this time are classified with the old rules.

Project writeup due 10/12