Title :
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
fDate :
30 Aug.-3 Sept. 2005
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;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2005. 31st EUROMICRO Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2431-1
DOI :
10.1109/EUROMICRO.2005.50