Complex Event Detection at Wire Speed with FPGAs

Summary: FPGA-implemented complex event detection inserted between the NIC and CPU enables real-time CEP at gigabit wire speed. The design delivers constant, predictable latency independent of network load, packet size, or data distribution, enabling efficient hybrid CPU-FPGA stream processing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10305
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 7.1576479e-05
Overall Rank: 3,744 | 74.32%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1920926

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Authors

1. Louis Woods (ETH Zurich)
2. Jens Teubner (ETH Zurich)
3. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{woods_vldb10,
        title = {{Complex Event Detection at Wire Speed with FPGAs}},
        author = {Woods, Louis and Teubner, Jens and Alonso, Gustavo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {1},
        pages = {660--663},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920926},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920926},
        year = {2010}
}

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Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,804	Skeleton Automata for FPGAs: Reconfiguring without Reconstructing	2012	SIGMOD	7.1112233e-05
4,503	Event Pattern Matching over Graph Streams	2015	VLDB	6.6597953e-05
4,862	Caribou: Intelligent Distributed Storage	2017	VLDB	6.4741258e-05
4,918	Massive Scale-out of Expensive Continuous Queries	2011	VLDB	6.4469122e-05
5,310	Low-Latency Handshake Join	2014	VLDB	6.2702891e-05
5,988	Complex Event Recognition in the Big Data Era	2017	VLDB	6.0177874e-05
8,199	Accelerating Pattern Matching Queries in Hybrid CPU-FPGA Architectures	2017	SIGMOD	5.4686907e-05
8,322	Event Trend Aggregation Under Rich Event Matching Semantics	2019	SIGMOD	5.4540698e-05
8,420	Histograms as a Side Effect of Data Movement for Big Data	2014	SIGMOD	5.4279873e-05
8,736	HYPERSONIC: A Hybrid Parallelization Approach for Scalable Complex Event Processing	2022	SIGMOD	5.3766157e-05
9,568	Making Search Engines Faster by Lowering the Cost of Querying Business Rules Through FPGAs	2020	SIGMOD	5.2528121e-05
11,795	Data Stream Event Prediction Based on Timing Knowledge and State Transitions	2020	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,240	E-Matching: Event Processing over Noisy Sequences in Real Time	2013	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,361	SwissBox: An Architecture for Data Processing Appliances	2011	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
565	Efficient Pattern Matching over Event Streams	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016445548
2,181	Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs	2009	VLDB	9.0101847e-05
2,314	SASE: Complex Event Processing over Streams	2007	CIDR	8.7619735e-05
2,581	Boosting XML Filtering with a Scalable FPGA-based Architecture	2009	CIDR	8.3882047e-05
3,631	DejaVu: Declarative Pattern Matching over Live and Archived Streams of Events	2009	SIGMOD	7.2379481e-05
3,846	Efficient Event Processing through Reconfigurable Hardware for Algorithmic Trading	2010	VLDB	7.0765817e-05
5,436	Symbiote - A Reconfigurable Logic Assisted Data Stream Management System (RLADSMS)	2010	SIGMOD	6.2202878e-05

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