Managing trust in a peer-2-peer information system
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An Efficient Approach for State Sharing in Server Pools
LCN '02 Proceedings of the 27th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
A New Scheme for IP-based Internet-Mobility
LCN '03 Proceedings of the 28th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks
On the Performance of Reliable Server Pooling Systems
LCN '05 Proceedings of the The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary
The design principles of PlanetLab
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Concurrent multipath transfer using SCTP multihoming over independent end-to-end paths
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Denial of service via algorithmic complexity attacks
SSYM'03 Proceedings of the 12th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 12
A New Server Selection Strategy for Reliable Server Pooling in Widely Distributed Environments
ICDS '08 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Digital Society
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops
SimProcTC: the design and realization of a powerful tool-chain for OMNeT++ simulations
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Evaluation and Optimization of the Registrar Redundancy Handling in Reliable Server Pooling Systems
AINA '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
NETWORKING'08 Proceedings of the 7th international IFIP-TC6 networking conference on AdHoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
Implementation and evaluation of concurrent multipath transfer for SCTP in the INET framework
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Applying TCP-Friendly Congestion Control to Concurrent Multipath Transfer
AINA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
The Software Modeling and Implementation of Reliable Server Pooling and RSPLIB
SERA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications
Evaluation of architectures for reliable server pooling in wired and wireless environments
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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In order to cope with the requirements of availability-critical internet services, reliable server pooling (RSerPool) has been developed as the new IETF standard for a lightweight server redundancy and session failover framework. While the service and pool management performance of RSerPool had already been the topic of various research papers, its security has not yet been widely examined. But security for availability-critical systems is crucial, since service outages – regardless of whether being caused by system failures or intentional denial of service (DoS) attacks – are not acceptable for the users of such systems. In this article, we first introduce RSerPool as well as the underlying SCTP protocol. In an analysis of the attack threats, we will show the possibilities of an attacker to degrade the service provided by an RSerPool system. We will furthermore introduce possible countermeasures, in order to prevent attacks and improve the robustness of the systems. We will finally show the effectiveness of our proposed countermeasures using simulations. In order to validate our simulation results, we furthermore compare them to measurements from a real-world internet setup using the PlanetLab.