RSerPool - providing highly available services using unreliable servers

Author

Dreibholz, Thomas ; Rathgeb, Erwin P.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Exp. Math., Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

fYear

2005

fDate

30 Aug.-3 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

396

Lastpage

403

Abstract

The Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) protocol suite currently under standardization by the IETF is designed to build systems providing highly available services by mechanisms and protocols for establishing, configuring, accessing and monitoring pools of server resources. Using RSerPool, critical infrastructure services like SS7 telecommunication systems, e-commerce transaction processing or distributed computing can be provided highly available using pools of unreliable servers. In this paper, we first give an overview of the RSerPool framework. In the following, we quantitatively show performance impacts of varying RSerPool parameters to failover handling, server selection efficiency and overhead traffic under server failure conditions.

Keywords

computer network reliability; network servers; standardisation; telecommunication services; transport protocols; IETF; RSerPool framework; SS7 telecommunication systems; distributed computing; e-commerce transaction processing; infrastructure services; reliable server pooling protocol; unreliable servers; Access protocols; Availability; Distributed computing; IP networks; Mathematics; Monitoring; Network servers; Redundancy; Standardization; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2005. 31st EUROMICRO Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2431-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUROMICRO.2005.50

Filename

1517766