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: hf3f37657492902dc
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 6.9979786e-05
Overall Rank: 3,827 | 74.28%
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
3,869	Skeleton Automata for FPGAs: Reconfiguring without Reconstructing	2012	SIGMOD	6.9566485e-05
4,583	Event Pattern Matching over Graph Streams	2015	VLDB	6.5187824e-05
4,877	Caribou: Intelligent Distributed Storage	2017	VLDB	6.3721859e-05
5,013	Massive Scale-out of Expensive Continuous Queries	2011	VLDB	6.314427e-05
5,434	Low-Latency Handshake Join	2014	VLDB	6.1305768e-05
6,101	Complex Event Recognition in the Big Data Era	2017	VLDB	5.8868179e-05
8,367	Accelerating Pattern Matching Queries in Hybrid CPU-FPGA Architectures	2017	SIGMOD	5.3460641e-05
8,489	Event Trend Aggregation Under Rich Event Matching Semantics	2019	SIGMOD	5.3316951e-05
8,576	Histograms as a Side Effect of Data Movement for Big Data	2014	SIGMOD	5.3111243e-05
8,899	HYPERSONIC: A Hybrid Parallelization Approach for Scalable Complex Event Processing	2022	SIGMOD	5.2559789e-05
9,744	Making Search Engines Faster by Lowering the Cost of Querying Business Rules Through FPGAs	2020	SIGMOD	5.1349531e-05
12,097	Data Stream Event Prediction Based on Timing Knowledge and State Transitions	2020	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,531	E-Matching: Event Processing over Noisy Sequences in Real Time	2013	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,652	SwissBox: An Architecture for Data Processing Appliances	2011	CIDR	4.9793485e-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
580	Efficient Pattern Matching over Event Streams	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016085679
2,218	Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs	2009	VLDB	8.8157887e-05
2,363	SASE: Complex Event Processing over Streams	2007	CIDR	8.5673723e-05
2,627	Boosting XML Filtering with a Scalable FPGA-based Architecture	2009	CIDR	8.2057483e-05
3,710	DejaVu: Declarative Pattern Matching over Live and Archived Streams of Events	2009	SIGMOD	7.0788108e-05
3,924	Efficient Event Processing through Reconfigurable Hardware for Algorithmic Trading	2010	VLDB	6.9223527e-05
5,560	Symbiote - A Reconfigurable Logic Assisted Data Stream Management System (RLADSMS)	2010	SIGMOD	6.0848616e-05

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