Securing RSVP and RSVP-TE signaling protocols and their performance study

Author

Zhi, Jing ; Lung, Chung-Homg ; Xu, Xia ; Srinivasan, Anand ; Lei, Yi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

2005

fDate

27-30 June 2005

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

94

Abstract

RSVP and RSVP-TE are signaling protocols used to set up paths and/or support quality of service (QoS) requirements in IP and MPLS-based networks, respectively. This paper analyzes an authentication mechanism for securing the RSVP and RSVP-TE control messages, and studies their performance. This design and implementation of the authentication mechanism, which is based on RFC2747, using four commonly adopted hash algorithms - MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA-1, and SHA-256, not only improves security, but also provides useful information from the performance aspect. The time for authenticating the signaling messages depends on the algorithm used, and increases slightly in the order of MD5, SHA-1, RIPEMD160 and SHA-256. The performance of the RSVP-TE with multiple sessions was measured.

Keywords

IP networks; cryptography; message authentication; multiprotocol label switching; quality of service; signalling protocols; telecommunication security; IP networks; MD5 algorithm; MPLS-based networks; QoS requirements; RIPEMD160 algorithm; RSVP signaling protocol security; RSVP-TE signaling protocol security; SHA-1 algorithm; SHA-256 algorithm; hash algorithms; quality of service; signaling message authentication; Authentication; Bandwidth; Computer crime; Computer networks; IP networks; Multiprotocol label switching; Protocols; Quality of service; Security; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Research and Education, 2005. ITRE 2005. 3rd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8932-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITRE.2005.1503074

Filename

1503074