Impact of IPSec Overhead on Web Application Servers

Author

Meenakshi, S.P. ; Raghavan, S.V.

Author_Institution

Indian Inst. of Technol., Chennai

fYear

2006

fDate

20-23 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

652

Lastpage

657

Abstract

IPSec provides Maturity solutions to various network based applications i.e., web applications. Implementing the, IPSec in network layer includes significant bandwidth and processing time, overhead to application traffic. The upperlayer protocols such as TCP and UDP behaviour is also influenced by these overheads. In war work, we have studied the impact of IPSee on the metrics: Round Trip Time, Average Burst Size and Available Bandwidth for IPv4 and IPv6 network traffic.HMAC-MD5 authentication algorithm, advanced encryption standard encryption algorithm, and deflate comperession algorithm are used for the protocols of IPSec. From the characterized metrics and computed overheads we analyze tile impact of IPSec on connection handling capacity of web application servers by considering the user behaviour on web page requests.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; cryptography; message authentication; protocols; telecommunication security; telecommunication traffic; HMAC-MD5 authentication algorithm; IPSec overhead; IPv4 network traffic; IPv6 network traffic; Web application server; Web page; advanced encryption standard encryption algorithm; average burst size; deflate compression algorithm; network layer; round trip time; upperlayer protocols; Application software; Authentication; Bandwidth; Cryptography; Network servers; Protocols; Telecommunication traffic; Time measurement; Traffic control; Web pages; Available Bandwidth; Average Burst Size; Bandwidth Overhead; Connection; IPSec; Processing Time Overhead; Round Trip Time; Web Page Requests;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Computing and Communications, 2006. ADCOM 2006. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Surathkal

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0716-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0716-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ADCOM.2006.4289981

Filename

4289981