Increasing the Efficiency of Packet Classifiers with Closed Descriptions
Elizaveta F. Goncharova, Sergei O. Kuznetsov
Journal of Data Processing, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2020.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6025/jdp/2020/10/1/30-39
Link: http://www.dline.info/jdp/fulltext/v10n1/jdpv10n1_3.pdf
Abstract:
Efficient representation of packet classifiers has become a significant challenge due to the rapid growth of data stored and processed in the forwarding, or routing, tables. In our work we propose two algorithms for reducing the size of forwarding tables both in length and width by the deletion of redundant bits and unreachable rules based on FCA analysis. We consider the task of transferring the forwarding packet to the correct destination as the task of multinomial classification. Thus, the process of reducing the forwarding table size corresponds to feature selection procedure with slight modifications.
The presented techniques are based on closed descriptions and decision trees. The main challenge in applying decision trees to the task is processing the overlapping rules. To overcome this challenge we propose to employ concept-based hypotheses to delete unreachable actions assigned to the overlapping rules. The experiments were performed on data generated by the ClassBench software. The proposed approach results in significant decrease in bits in the forwarding tables as features.