Real-time Regular Expression Matching
Alexandra Bernadotte
This paper is devoted to finite state automata, regular expression matching,
pattern recognition, and the exponential blow-up problem, which is the growing
complexity of automata exponentially depending on regular expression length.
This paper presents a theoretical and hardware solution to the exponential
blow-up problem for some complicated classes of regular languages, which caused
severe limitations in Network Intrusion Detection Systems work. The article
supports the solution with theorems on correctness and complexity.