A New Server Selection Strategy for Reliable Server Pooling in Widely Distributed Environments

In order to provide a generic, applicationindependent and resource-efficient framework for server redundancy and session failover, the IETF RSerPool WG is currently standardizing the Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) framework. Server redundancy has to take load distribution and load balancing into consideration since these issues are crucial for the system performance. There has already been some research on the server selection strategies of RSerPool for different application scenarios. In particular, it has been shown that the adaptive Least Used selection usually provides the best performance. This strategy requires up-to-date load information of the services, which has to be propagated among distributed pool management components. But network delay (which is realistic for systems being widely distributed to achieve availability in case of regional servers failures) as well as caching of information may both lead to obsolete load information. Therefore, the purpose of this paper...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICDS
• Authors: Xing Zhou, Thomas Dreibholz, Erwin P. Rathgeb
• Keywords: Digital Society, ICDS 2008, Reliable Server Pooling, Server Redundancy, Server Selection