Sharif Digital Repository

With the proliferation of Internet-based applications and malicious attacks, security has become one of the most influential aspects in the network and, it should be considered from the beginning steps of designing the network infrastructure. Based on the fact that pattern matching is considered as one of the most important roles of security devices or applications, it becomes an important procedure in firewalls that have been classified as security equipments which adopt a security mechanism in order to restrict the traffic exchanged between networks and particular users or certain applications. While the trend of using compressed traffic is drastically increasing, this type of traffic is...