Firewall simulator development for performance evaluation of ranging a filtration rules set

This paper is written as a continuation of works devoted to solving the task of increasing the firewall performance in conditions of high heterogeneity and variability of the parameters of the filtered network traffic. The paper shows a simulation model that is intended for the evaluation of the major performance indicators of a firewall when ranging a filtration rule set. We’ve evaluated the effectiveness of the method for ranging a filtration rule set (it was developed earlier by the authors) for various parameters of the simulation model and different scenarios of network traffic behavior.