Embedded Network Firewall on FPGA

Author

Ajami, Raouf ; Dinh, Anh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

11-13 April 2011

Firstpage

1041

Lastpage

1043

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a highly customizable hardware packet filtering firewall to be embedded on a network gateway. This firewall has the ability to process the data packets based on source and destination TCP/UDP port number, source and destination IP address range, source MAC address and combination of source IP address, and destination port number. It is capable of accepting configuration changes in real time. An Alter a FPGA platform has been used for implementing and evaluating the network firewall.

Keywords

authorisation; computer network security; field programmable gate arrays; Altera FPGA platform; customizable hardware packet filtering firewall; data packets; destination IP address range; destination TCP-UDP port number; embedded network firewall; network gateway; source IP address range; source MAC address; source TCP-UDP port number; Computer aided manufacturing; Field programmable gate arrays; Fires; IP networks; Random access memory; Real time systems; Software; FPGA; embedded system; network firewall;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2011 Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-427-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4367-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2011.178

Filename

5945379