@InProceedings{ FGCN2007-HsMgt, author = "Thomas Dreibholz and Erwin Paul Rathgeb", title = "{An Evaluation of the Pool Maintenance Overhead in Reliable Server Pooling Systems}", booktitle = "{Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking~(FGCN)}", volume = "1", pages = "136--143", numpages = "8", day = "6", month = dec, year = "2007", address = "Jeju Island/South Korea", language = "english", isbn = "0-7695-3048-6", doi = "10.1109/FGCN.2007.62", keywords = "Reliable Server Pooling~(RSerPool), Server Pools, Handlespace Management, SCTP, Performance", abstract = "{Reliable Server Pooling~(RSerPool) is a protocol framework for server redundancy and session failover, currently still under standardization by the IETF RSerPool~WG. An important property of RSerPool is its lightweight architecture: server pool and session management can be realized with small CPU power and memory requirements. That is, RSerPool-based services can also be managed and provided by embedded systems. Currently, there has already been some research on the performance of the data structures managing server pools. But a generic, application-independent performance analysis -- in particular also including measurements in real system setups -- is still missing. Therefore, the aim of this paper is -- after an outline of the RSerPool framework, an introduction to the pool management procedures and a description of our pool management approach -- to first provide a detailed performance evaluation of the pool management structures themselves. Afterwards, the performance of a prototype implementation is analysed in order to evaluate its applicability under real network conditions.}", url = "https://www.wiwi.uni-due.de/fileadmin/fileupload/I-TDR/ReliableServer/Publications/FGCN2007-HsMgt.pdf", url.size = "492902", url.md5 = "3f06ad92c93f4dcde961912cfe251b11", url.mime = "application/pdf", url.pagesize = "595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)", url.checked = "2014-04-02 17:08:18 CEST" }