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Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Firewall Architectures for Multimedia Applications

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Overview 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. The paper shows 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.

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Publisher	University College Cork	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2000
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls, Network Security, Security Tools

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