Performance modelling and evaluation of firewall architectures for multimedia applications

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Abstract

Firewalls are a well-established security mechanism to restrict the traffic exchanged between networks to a certain subset of users and applications. In order to cope with new application types like multimedia applications, new firewall architectures are necessary. The performance of these new architectures is a critical factor because Quality of Service (QoS) demands of multimedia applications have to be satisfied. We show how the performance of firewall architectures for multimedia applications can be determined. A model is presented which can be used to describe the performance of multimedia firewall architectures. This model can be used to dimension firewalls for usage with multimedia applications. In addition, we present the results of a lab experiment, used to evaluate the performance of a distributed firewall architecture and to validate the model.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsNikolas Mitrou, Kimon Kontovasilis, George N. Rouskas, Ilias lliadis, Lazaros Merakos
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages38-51
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783540246930
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3042
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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