Efficient Regular Expression Pattern Matching for Network Intrusion Detection Systems using Modified Word-based Automata

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) intercept the traffic at an organization's network periphery to thwart intrusion attempts. Signature-based NIDS compares the intercepted packets against its database of known vulnerabilities and malware signatures to detect such cyber attacks. These signatures are represented using Regular Expressions (REs) and strings. Regular Expressions, because of their higher expressive power, are preferred over simple strings to write these signatures. We present Cascaded Automata Architecture to perform memory efficient Regular Expression pattern matching using existing string matching solutions. The proposed architecture performs two stage Regular Expression pattern matching. We replace the substring and character class components of the Regular Expression with new symbols. We address the challenges involved in this approach. We augment the Word-based Automata, obtained from the re-written Regular Expressions, with counter-based states and length bound transitions to perform Regular Expression pattern matching. We evaluated our architecture on Regular Expressions taken from Snort rulesets. We were able to reduce the number of automata states between 50% to 85%. Additionally, we could reduce the number of transitions by a factor of 3 leading to further reduction in the memory requirements.

Performance improvement of short-length regular low-density parity-check codes with low-complexity post-processing

It is well known that extremely long low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes perform exceptionally well for error correction applications, short-length codes are preferable in practical applications. However, short-length LDPC codes suffer from performance degradation owing to graph-based impairments such as short cycles, trapping sets and stopping sets and so on in the bipartite graph of the LDPC matrix. In particular, performance degradation at moderate to high E-b/N-0 is caused by the oscillations in bit node a posteriori probabilities induced by short cycles and trapping sets in bipartite graphs. In this study, a computationally efficient algorithm is proposed to improve the performance of short-length LDPC codes at moderate to high E-b/N-0. This algorithm makes use of the information generated by the belief propagation (BP) algorithm in previous iterations before a decoding failure occurs. Using this information, a reliability-based estimation is performed on each bit node to supplement the BP algorithm. The proposed algorithm gives an appreciable coding gain as compared with BP decoding for LDPC codes of a code rate equal to or less than 1/2 rate coding. The coding gains are modest to significant in the case of optimised (for bipartite graph conditioning) regular LDPC codes, whereas the coding gains are huge in the case of unoptimised codes. Hence, this algorithm is useful for relaxing some stringent constraints on the graphical structure of the LDPC code and for developing hardware-friendly designs.

Analysis of the degrees-of-freedom of spatial parallel manipulators in regular and singular configurations

This paper presents a study of the nature of the degrees-of-freedom of spatial manipulators based on the concept of partition of degrees-of-freedom. In particular, the partitioning of degrees-of-freedom is studied in five lower-mobility spatial parallel manipulators possessing different combinations of degrees-of-freedom. An extension of the existing theory is introduced so as to analyse the nature of the gained degree(s)-of-freedom at a gain-type singularity. The gain of one- and two-degrees-of-freedom is analysed in several well-studied, as well as newly developed manipulators. The formulations also present a basis for the analysis of the velocity kinematics of manipulators of any architecture. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Diagnóstico de las empresas familiares con estudiantes de Lic. En Agronegocios, modalidad regular, Facultad de Desarrollo Rural, Universidad Nacional Agraria, año 2014

La empresa familiar forma parte fundamental de las estructuras productivas, tanto de las economías industrializadas como en vías de desarrollo; a pesar de carecer de datos rigorosos que permitan corroborarlo, la empresa familiar tiene un papel preponderante en la generación de riqueza nacional; el objetivo fundamental del estudio fue conocer el grado de conocimiento y el rol que ejercen los estudiantes en una empresa familiar y el número de empresas familiares existentes en la carrera de Lic. Agronegocios, Facultad de Desarrollo Rural, Universidad Nacional Agraria- Managua, esto se realizó a través de la implementación de encuesta a los estudiantes que formaron parte de la muestra logrando realizar posteriormente un análisis de datos que facilitó la redacción del documento presentado a continuación; la ejecución de esta temática se dio debido la poca importancia que se le ha dado al tema de las empresas familiares dentro de la economía de Nicaragua a pesar de que estas aportan el 50% del PIB, la falta de información y estudios relacionados que nos ayuden a conocer la realidad de estas empresas tanto en el ámbito organizativo como en el económico; de las negocios encontrados entre la muestra el 33% forma parte de las MIPYMES divididos el 21% en la micro empresas, el 8% en la pequeña empresa y el 3% en la mediana empresa, el 67% restante de la muestra total son negocios de emprendimiento categorizados así por facturar menos de 37360.83 dólares; por otro parte el 18% de los estudiantes matriculados en la Lic. Agronegocios forman parte de una empresa familiar de este porcentaje el 10% tiene conocimiento amplio sobre la temática, un 14 % posee únicamente ciertos conocimientos derivados de algunos temas relacionados mientras que el 76% no tienen ningún tipo de conocimiento acerca de la temática.

O legislativo vai à escola : as instituições políticas e o poder legislativo no âmbito da educação regular

Discute a participação política de jovens e a sua relação com a educação formal. Argumentando a favor de mais conhecimento e envolvimento dos jovens na política institucionalizada, busca analisar as oportunidades abertas pelas normativas da educação e pelas inovações produzidas nos legislativos do país para a inclusão, no contexto da educação escolar, da temática das instituições políticas e do Poder Legislativo.

Las ideas lingüísticas de Juan Mateo Zabala: El verbo regular vascongado del dialecto vizcaíno (1848)

Presentado en las II. Jornadas de Lingüística Vasco-Románica / Euskal-Erromantze Linguistika II. Jardunaldietan aurkeztua (Bilbo, 2007)

Orbe serafico novo brasilico, descoberto, estabelecido, e cultivado a influxos da nova luz de Italia, estrella brilhante de Hespanha, luzido sol de Padua, astro mayor do ceo de Francisco, o thaumaturgo portuguez Sto. Antonio a quem vay consagrado, como theatro glorioso : e, parte primeira da chronica dos frades menores da mais estreita, e regular observancia da provincia do Brasil por Fr. Antonio de Santa Maria Jaboatam

Parte primeira da chronica dos frades menores da mais estreita e regular observancia da provincia do Brasil

Alvará com força de Lei, pelo qual Vossa Alteza Real ha por bem regular a arqueação dos navios, empregados na conducção dos negros, que dos portos de Africa se exportão para os do Brasil; dando Vossa Alteza Real, por effeito dos seus incomparaveis sentimentos de humanidade, e benificencia as mais saudaveis, e benignas providencias em beneficio daquelles individuos : para Vossa Alteza Real ver / Francisco Xavier de Noronha Torrezão o fez

Referência: Bibliografia da Impressão Regia do Rio de Janeiro / Ana Maria de Almeida Camargo, Rubens Borba de Moraes, 1993. v. 2, p. 79.

Las estrategias competitivas de los operadores de transporte marítimo de contenedores en línea regular

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Chains of Non-regular de Branges Spaces

We consider canonical systems with singular left endpoints, and discuss the concept of a scalar spectral measure and the corresponding generalized Fourier transform associated with a canonical system with a singular left endpoint. We use the framework of de Branges’ theory of Hilbert spaces of entire functions to study the correspondence between chains of non-regular de Branges spaces, canonical systems with singular left endpoints, and spectral measures.

We find sufficient integrability conditions on a Hamiltonian H which ensure the existence of a chain of de Branges functions in the first generalized Pólya class with Hamiltonian H. This result generalizes de Branges’ Theorem 41, which showed the sufficiency of stronger integrability conditions on H for the existence of a chain in the Pólya class. We show the conditions that de Branges came up with are also necessary. In the case of Krein’s strings, namely when the Hamiltonian is diagonal, we show our proposed conditions are also necessary.

We also investigate the asymptotic conditions on chains of de Branges functions as t approaches its left endpoint. We show there is a one-to-one correspondence between chains of de Branges functions satisfying certain asymptotic conditions and chains in the Pólya class. In the case of Krein’s strings, we also establish the one-to-one correspondence between chains satisfying certain asymptotic conditions and chains in the generalized Pólya class.