Title :
A case study of two NRL Pump prototypes
Author :
Kang, Myong H. ; Moskowitz, Ira S. ; Montrose, Bruce E. ; Parsonese, James J.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Inf. Technol., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
As computer systems become more open and interconnected, the need for reliable and secure communication also increases. The NRL (Naval Research Laboratory) Pump was introduced by Kang and Moskowitz (1993) to balance the requirements of reliability, congestion control, fairness and good performance against those of threats from covert channels and denial-of-service attacks. In this paper, we describe two prototype efforts. One (the event-driven Pump or E-Pump) implements the Pump at the process (top) layer in terms of a 4-layer network reference model, and the other (the DOS-Pump or D-Pump) implements the Pump at the transport layer. We then discuss lessons learned and how these lessons are to be used in deciding upon the final hardware implementation of the Pump
Keywords :
computer network reliability; open systems; performance evaluation; protocols; security of data; software prototyping; telecommunication congestion control; 4-layer network reference model; D-Pump; DOS-Pump; E-Pump; NRL Pump; case study; congestion control; covert channels; data pump; denial-of-service attacks; event-driven Pump; fairness; hardware implementation; interconnected computer systems; open systems; performance; process layer; prototypes; reliable communication; secure communication; threats; transport layer; Communication system control; Computer aided software engineering; Computer crime; Computer network reliability; Data security; Information technology; Laboratories; Postal services; Prototypes; Telecommunication network reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Security Applications Conference, 1996., 12th Annual
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7606-X
DOI :
10.1109/CSAC.1996.569667
