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
RSerPool - Providing Highly Available Services using Unreliable Servers
EUROMICRO '05 Proceedings of the 31st EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
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The Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) protocol suite currently under standardization by the IETF is designed to build systems providing highly available services by providing mechanisms and protocols for establishing, configuring, accessing and monitoring pools of server resources. While availability is one main aspect of RSerPool, load distribution is another. Since most of the time a server pool system runs without component failures, optimal performance is an extremely important issue for the productivity and cost-efficiency of the system. In this paper, we therefore focus especially on the load distribution performance of RSerPool in scenarios without failures, presenting a quantitative performance comparison of the different load distribution strategies (called pool policies) defined in the RSerPool specifications. Based on the results, we propose some new pool policies providing significant performance enhancements compared to those currently defined in the standards documents.