Memory management of firewall filtering rules using modified tree rule approach

Abstract

Firewalls are essential for safety and are used for protecting a great deal of private networks. A firewall’s goal is to examine every incoming and outgoing data before granting access. A notable kind of conventional firewall is the rule-based firewall. However, when it comes to job performance, traditional listed-rule firewalls are limited, and they become useless when utilized with some networks that have extremely big firewall rule sets. This study proposes a model firewall architecture called “TreeRule Firewall,” which has benefits and functions effectively in large-scale networks like “cloud.” In order to improve cloud network security, this study suggests a modified tree rule firewall (MTRF cloud) that eliminates rule discrepancies. For the matching firewall policy, this work creates a tree rule firewall. There are no duplicate rules created by the proposed improved tree rule firewall. Also, memory utilization of different size rules is compared.