Reliable server pooling in highly mobile wireless networks

Author

Uyar, M. Ümit ; Zheng, Jianliang ; Fecko, Mariusz A. ; Samtani, Sunil

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., City Coll. of the CUNY, New York, NY, USA

fYear

2003

Firstpage

627

Abstract

The reliable server pooling is a framework to handle session failures and increase the system´s availability by providing several reliability services: from simple server selection to a full session-failover capability. In the IETF RSerPool, servers with equivalent functionality are pooled together; when a particular server becomes unavailable, a client application can transparently switched over to another server in the pool. Extensive simulation experiments identified two main shortcomings of the RSerPool in wireless mobile networks: the inaccuracy of the failure-detection mechanism for pooled servers, and high overhead of finding name servers. We introduce and evaluate alternative mechanisms that tackle these problems.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; client-server systems; mobile radio; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication services; IETF working group; ad-hoc networks; battlefield networks; failure-detection mechanism; mobile wireless networks; reliability services; reliable server pooling; server selection; service overlay networks; session-failover capability; system availability; Availability; Cities and towns; Collaborative work; Communication switching; Intelligent networks; Local government; Network servers; Switches; Testing; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communication, 2003. (ISCC 2003). Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Symposium on

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1961-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2003.1214188

Filename

1214188