Network Processing Group (NPG)

About

The Network Processing Design group is run by Dr. Xiaojun Wang

Research Interests

Hardware acceleration for Packet classification and Deep Packet Inspection
Energy-efficient Network Processor design
High-Level Synthesis with power-efficiency and testability considerations
HDL modelling for synthesis and rapid FPGA Prototyping

Research Projects

FP7 Project (2010 - 2013): ECONET - Low Energy Consumption Networks
IRCSET Embark Initiative (2009-2012): High Performance Hardware Accelerators for Deep Packet Inspection with Low Power Consumption
IRCSET Embark Initiative (2008-2011): Power Efficient Caches for High Performance Network Processors
Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund (Proof of Concept) 2008: High Performance Low-Power Hardware Accelerators for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher (August 2008): A configurable cache model and performance data for representative multimedia workloads running on Movidia architecture
SFI Conference & Workshop Grant (2007): CIICT 2007 - 2007 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications (with Prof Liam Barry and Dr Conor McArdle)
IRCSET Embark Initiative (2007-2009): Performance Optimization Techniques for Caching Mechanism in Network Processors
IRCSET Embark Initiative (2007-2010): Low Power, Parallel Compiler Optimization for High Performance Network Processors
IRCSET Embark Initiative (2006-2009): Energy-Efficient Network Processor Design
SFI China-Ireland Science and Technology Collaboration Research Fund (2006-2008): Architecture and Compiler Optimization for Power Reduction in High Performance Network Processors (PIs: Dr Xiaojun Wang, Dr Martin Collier (DCU); Prof Bin Liu, Tsinghua University)
SFI China-Ireland Science and Technology Collaboration Research Fund (2004-2006): Research on Optimized Processing in Network Processor Units for High- performance Routers (PIs: Dr Xiaojun Wang, Dr Martin Collier (DCU); Prof. Bin Liu, Tsinghua University)

Research Team

Dr. Xiaojun Wang, Senior Lecturer, School of Electronic Engineering, DCU
Dr. Olga Ormond , NIC Research Officer
Dr. Xiong Huanhuan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, PhD (Wuhan University)
Mr. Jing Huang, PhD researcher, BSc (Wuhan University)
Ms. Yachao Zhou, PhD reseearcher, MEng (Tsinghua University) BEng (BUPT)
Mr. Xiaofei Wang, PhD researcher, MEng (BUPT)
Mr. Brendan Cronin, PhD researcher, MEng (DCU), BEng (UCC)
Mr. Chen Sun, PhD researcher, MEng (BUPT), BEng (BUPT)
Mr. Ming Zhao, Visiting PhD Researcher, BEng ( 2007, BUPT)
Mr. Feng Guo, Ph.D. researcher, MEng (2010, BUPT)
Mr. Khalid Javeed, Ph.D. researcher, MEEng(LU,Sweden), BCEng (CIIT,Pakistan)

Former team members

Dr. Zhen Liu, Post-doctoral Research Fellow (2007-2009), PhD (Tsinghua University)
Dr. David Bermingham, PhD (DCU, 2010)
Dr. Alan Kennedy, PhD ( DCU, 2010)
Dr. Valentin Muresan, PhD (DCU, 2002)

Research opportunities

IRCSET PhD scholarship - The call for scholarship in 2011 is open and will close on 16 February 2011.
CSC - DCU PhD Scholarship - 国家留学基金委博士生奖学金 China Scholarship Council - DCU PhD scholarship. The China Scholarship Counci PhD scholarships are open to students in "985" and "211" universities in China. Look for 爱尔兰大学联合会博士生项目 Irish Universities Association PhD project on CSC project list.
IRCSET Postdoctoral Fellowship - The Call for Fellowships in 2011 will be open later this year.
ECONET project -we are looking for applications for Postdoctoral Researcher – Energy Efficient Networking see job ad .

If you are interested in applying for the IRCSET PhD scholarship or the CSC-DCU PhD Scholarship to do your PhD reserach in our group, please email your CV to me.

Publications

Selected publications

Xiaofei Wang, Junchen Jiang, Yi Tang, Bin Liu and Xiaojun Wang, ``StriD²FA: Scalable Regular Expression Matching for Deep Packet
Inspection'', IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011), 5-9 June, Kyoto, Japan.
D. Bermingham, Z. Liu, X. Wang, “SimNP: A Flexible Platform for the Simulation of Network Processing Systems”, Communications and Network, Vol.2, No.2 (Nov 2010), pp. 207-215.
Brendan Cronin, Xiaojun Wang, "Algorithmic Multi-match Packet Classification in Network Intrusion Detection Systems", CIICT 2010, 10-11 Oct 2010, Wuhan, China.
A. Kennedy, X.J. Wang, Z. Liu, Bin Liu, "Ultra-High Throughput String Matching for Deep Packet Inspection", Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE 2010), 8-12 March, Dresdan, Germany.
David Bermingham, Zhen Liu, Xiaojun Wang, Bin Liu "Field-Based Branch Prediction for Packet Processing Engines",The Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'09), Dec. 8~11, Shenzhen, China.
Liu, Z, Kennedy, A, Ormond, O, Wang, X, “Power-Efficient Packet Classifier for Next-Generation Routers”, ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) News, No. 79, Oct. 2009.
Alan Kennedy, Zhen Liu, Xiaojun Wang, Bin Liu, "Multi-Engine Packet Classification Hardware Accelerator", ICCCN 2009, San Francisco, 2-6 August 2009.
YANG Fangchun, DU Junping, WANG Weining, WANG Xiaojun (eds), Proceedings of the IET 2008 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT08), Beijing, China, October 26-28, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-86341-921-8.
D.Bermingham, X. Wang, Z. Liu, B. Liu, “Branch Prediction For Network Processors”, ICM 2008. Internatonal Conference on Microelectronics, 14-17 Dec 2008, Sharjah, UAE.
A. Kennedy, X. Wang, Z. Liu, B. Liu, “Low Power Architecture for High Speed Packet Classification”, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS2008), Nov 6-7, 2008, California, USA.
D. Bermingham, Z.Liu, X.Wang, “SimNP: A Flexible Platform for the Simulation of Network Processing System”, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS2008), Nov 6-7, 2008, California, USA.
Alan Kennedy, Xiaojun Wang, Zhen Liu, Bin Liu, "Frequency Scaling for Multidimensional Packet Classification", The IET 2008 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT2008), Sept 26-28, 2008, Beijing, China, pp. 383 -387.
Zhen Liu, Jia Yu, Xiaojun Wang, Bin Liu, and Laxmi Bhuyan, "Revisiting the Cache Effect on Multicore Multithreaded Network Processors", 34th EuroMicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Sept 3-5, 2008, Italy.
Alan Kennedy, Xiaojun Wang, Bin Liu, 'Energy Efficient Packet Classification Hardware Accelerator”, proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008), Florida, USA, April 14-18, 2008.
Alan Kennedy, David Bermingham, Xiaojun Wang, Bin Liu, “Power Analysis of Packet Classification on Programmable Network Processors”, Proc 2007 IEEE Intl Conf on Signal Processing and Communications (ICSPC07), Dubai, UAE, 24-27 Nov 2007, pp. 1231-1234.
Lingling Sun, Xiaojun Wang, Boran Guan, Tieming Xiang, Martin Collier (eds), Proceedings of the 2006 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT06), Hangzhou, China, October 18-19, 2006, ISBN: 7-302-13951-2.
Li-Chuan Weng, Xiaojun Wang, Bin Liu, “Block-level Voltage Frequency Scheduling for Low Power”, Proc of the 2006 China-Ireland International Conference on ICT (CIICT06), Hangzhou, China, 18-19, Oct 2006, ISBN 7-302-13951-2, pp.210-213.

Publication List

DCU Presentation (application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, 34.3 MB, info)

CIICT2006 Proceedings (application/octet-stream, 24.6 MB, info)

Linkages

Keywords

Energy-efficiency, power-efficiency, Network Processor Design, Hardware Acceleration, Packet Classification, Deep Packet Inspection, HDL

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