Performance analysis of application layer firewall

Author

Aziz, Mohd Zafran Abdul ; Ibrahim, Muhammad Yusoff ; Omar, Abdullatif M. ; Rahman, Ruhani Ab ; Zan, Md Mahfudz Md ; Yusof, Mat Ikram

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknol. MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

23-26 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

182

Lastpage

186

Abstract

Nowadays organizations are likely to have Internet presence and this has led to a significant increase in all kinds of network attacks. Network security became one of the highest priorities to protect valuable data from unauthorized access. One of the solutions to protect against illegal access is to use a firewall. A firewall is a device designed to permit or deny network traffic. This paper will investigate the performance of firewall based on two main factors, namely response time and link utilization. Various scenarios were considered to show the impact of firewall in network performance using the OPNET simulation program.

Keywords

Internet; firewalls; telecommunication traffic; Internet; OPNET simulation program; application layer firewall; illegal access; link utilization; network attacks; network security; network traffic; response time; unauthorized access; Communication system security; Databases; Filtering; Internet; Security; Servers; Time factors; Firewalls; network performance; network security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology and Applications (ISWTA), 2012 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bandung

ISSN

2324-7843

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2209-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWTA.2012.6373838

Filename

6373838