Hardware Acceleration of Algorithms in Computer Networks using FPGA

With the growing speed of computer networks, network devices need more processing power to achieve wire speed throughput. As current processor have limited performance, routers and other network devices use hardware acceleration to achieve wire speed throughput with reasonable power consumption. Usually, the throughput is decreased by time critical operations which has to be performed for every packet or every byte of network traffic. The presentation will be focused on hardware acceleration of time critical operations in networking using FPGA and provides results of recent research in longest prefix matching (IP look-up), packet classification and regular expressions matching. The end of the presentation will be devoted to the rapid development of hardware accelerated network applications.