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Mark Allman. On the Performance of Middleboxes. ACM SIGCOMM/Usenix Internet Measurement Conference, Miami, FL, USA, October 2003.
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Abstract:
This paper presents a preliminary performance analysis of a
complex middlebox infrastructure in a real-world production
environment that serves several thousand people. While prevalent,
middleboxes (firewalls, NATs, etc.) have yet to be systematically
measured. This paper makes two contributions: (i) we outline
several methodologies and metrics by which to measure middleboxes
and (ii) we offer preliminary application-layer measurements of
one particular production middlebox system. We show that the
middlebox infrastructure in question offers a mixed bag of
performance implications (both positive and negative). In
addition, we quantify several failure modes introduced by the
middlebox infrastructure.
BibTeX:
@inproceedings{All03c,
author = "Mark Allman",
title = "{On the Performance of Middleboxes}",
booktitle = "ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference",
year = 2003,
pages = "307--312",
month = oct,
}
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