Publications
Malacoda: towards high-level compilation of network security applications on reconfigurable hardware
| Author | Mühlbach, Sascha; Koch, Andreas |
|---|---|
| Date | 2012 |
| Type | Conference Proceedings |
| Abstract | While the use of reconfigurable computing for tasks such as packet header processing or deep packet-inspection in high-speed networks has been widely studied, efforts to extend the technology to application-level processing have only recently been made. One issue that has prevented wider use of reconfigurable platforms in that context is the unfamiliar programming environment: Such systems commonly require expertise in computer architecture and digital logic design generally foreign to networking experts. To make the technology more accessible to potential users, we present the high-level domain-specific language Malacoda for application-level network processing and an associated compiler that automatically translates Malacoda descriptions into high-performance hardware blocks for insertion into an FPGA-based processing platform. We evaluate our approach on the use-case of a hardware-accelerated secure honeypot-in-a-box, programmed in Malacoda, and implemented on the NetFPGA 10G board. Results from a live-test of the system connected to a 10G Internet uplink complete the evaluation. |
| Isbn | 978-1-4503-1685-9 |
| Serie | ANCS '12 |
| In | Proceedings of the eighth ACM/IEEE symposium on Architectures for networking and communications systems, p.247-258 |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Partn | TUD-CS-2012-0384 |
| Url | https://tubiblio.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/98243 |
