@InProceedings{ Networking2008, author = "Thomas Dreibholz and Erwin Paul Rathgeb and Xing Zhou", title = "{On Robustness and Countermeasures of Reliable Server Pooling Systems against Denial of Service Attacks}", booktitle = "{Proceedings of the 7th International IFIP Networking Conference}", series = "{Lecture Notes in Computer Science}", volume = "4982", pages = "586--598", numpages = "13", day = "7", month = may, year = "2008", publisher = "Springer", address = "Singapore", language = "english", isbn = "978-3-540-79548-3", doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-79549-0_51", keywords = "Reliable Server Pooling, Attacks, Denial of Service, Robustness, Countermeasures", abstract = "{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.}", url = "https://www.wiwi.uni-due.de/fileadmin/fileupload/I-TDR/ReliableServer/Publications/Networking2008.pdf", url.size = "490453", url.md5 = "185b4404904fcb988d4c237634f2c1aa", url.mime = "application/pdf", url.pagesize = "595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)", url.checked = "2014-04-02 17:08:19 CEST", note = "{ISBN} 978-3-540-79548-3" }