Implementation and performance analysis of SNMP on a TLS/TCP base

Author

Du, X. ; Shayman, M. ; Rozenblit, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

453

Lastpage

466

Abstract

There is great interest in exploring SNMP/TCP in addition to the current use of SNMP/UDP due to performance benefits for bulk transfer as well as to simplify management applications. If SNMP is implemented over TCP, then TLS is a natural choice for security. However, it must be demonstrated that the additional overhead associated with TLS is not excessive. We show this by implementing SNMP on a TLS/TCP base and measuring its performance experimentally. The results indicate that the overhead is not excessive; consequently SNMP/TLS/TCP appears to be a viable option for network management

Keywords

Internet; computer network management; performance evaluation; security of data; telecommunication security; transport protocols; IP based networks; SNMP; SNMP/TCP; SNMP/UDP; TLS/TCP; bulk transfer; computer networks; data networks; management applications; network management; performance analysis; performance measurement; security; Application software; Computer network management; Delay; Educational institutions; Performance analysis; Privacy; Protection; Protocols; Security; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Network Management Proceedings, 2001 IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6719-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INM.2001.918059

Filename

918059