Hardware-assisted estimation of entropy norm for high-speed network traffic

The computation of the entropy of a high-speed data stream in a one-pass fashion is crucial to many network security applications. Motivated by the work of Lall et al., this study examines the design trade-off of processing speed and accuracy for estimating the entropy norm. The proposed scheme leverages the Count Sketch with constant memory access on counter update and point query operations. With a bounded relative error and a constant memory access cycle, the design can process incoming traffic with a throughput of 30 Gbit/s.