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05276859 Dreibholz, Thomas Rathgeb, Erwin P. Zhou, Xing On robustness and countermeasures of reliable server pooling systems against denial of service attacks. Das, Amitabha (ed.) et al., NETWORKING 2008 ad hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet. 7th international IFIP-TC6 networking conference Singapore, May 5--9, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-540-79548-3/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4982, 586-598 (2008). 2008 Berlin: Springer EN Reliable Server Pooling Attacks Denial of Service Robustness Countermeasures

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-79549-0_51

Summary: The Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) architecture is the IETF's novel approach to standardize a light-weight protocol framework for server redundancy and session failover. It combines ideas from different research areas into a single, resource-efficient and unified architecture. While there have already been a number of contributions on the performance of RSerPool for its main tasks -- pool management, load distribution and failover handling -- the robustness of the protocol framework has not yet been evaluated against intentional attacks. The first goal of this paper is to provide a robustness analysis. In particular, we would like to outline the attack bandwidth necessary for a significant impact on the service. Furthermore, we present and evaluate our countermeasure approach to significantly reduce the impact of attacks.