Abstract: The trend of the networking processing is to increase the
intelligence of the routers (i.e. security capacities). This means that there
is an increment in the workload generated per packet and new types of
applications are emerging, such as stateful programs. On the other hand,
Internet traffic continues to grow vigorously. This fact involves an increment
of the traffic aggregation levels and overloades the processing capacities of
the routers. In this paper we show the importance of traffic aggregation level on
networking application studies. We also classify the applications according to
the data management of the packet processing. Hence, we present the different
impacts on the data cache performance depending on the application category.
Our results show that traffic aggregation level may affect the cache
performance depending on the networking application category. Stateful
applications show a significant sensitivity to this impact.
