Title :
An efficient approach for state sharing in server pools
Author :
Dreibholz, Thomas
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Exp. Math., Essen Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Many Internet services require high availability. Server pooling provides a high availability solution using redundant servers. If one server fails, the service is continued by another one. A challenge for server pooling is efficient state sharing: the new server requires the old one´s state to continue service. This paper proposes a simple, efficient and scalable solution, usable for a large subset of applications.
Keywords :
Internet; computer network reliability; cryptography; file servers; Internet services; KING research project; client-based state sharing; confidentiality; cryptographic methods; efficient solution; high availability solution; message authenticity; message integrity; redundant servers; scalable solution; server pools; state sharing; tended cookie approach; Availability; Computer networks; Cryptography; File servers; Mathematics; Modems; Scalability; User interfaces; Web and internet services; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks, 2002. Proceedings. LCN 2002. 27th Annual IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1591-6
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.2002.1181806