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Traffic-Aware Firewall Optimization Strategies

whitepaper This paper describes a traffic-aware optimization framework to improve the operational cost of firewalls. To the best of the knowledge, this work is the first to use traffic characteristics in firewall optimization.

Tags: firewalls

[15 May 2008]

Adaptive Statistical Optimization Techniques for Firewall Packet Filtering

whitepaper However, most of the related works use deterministic techniques and do not exploit the traffic characteristics in their optimization schemes. It also presents a new packet filtering optimization technique that uses adaptive statistical search trees...

Tags: security tools

[11 May 2008]

On Dynamic Optimization of Packet Matching in High Speed Firewalls

whitepaper However, most of the related works use deterministic techniques and do not exploit the traffic characteristics in their optimization schemes. Packet matching plays a critical role in the performance of many network devices and a tremendous amount...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

An Automated Framework for Validating Firewall Policy Enforcement

whitepaper Using reliable and yet practical techniques for testing the functionality of firewall devices particularly after new filtering implementation or optimization becomes necessary to assure required security.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Dynamic Rule-Ordering Optimization for High-Speed Firewall Filtering

whitepaper The optimization of firewall policies is critically important to provide high performance packet filtering particularly for high speed network security. Current packet filtering techniques exploit the characteristics of the filtering policies, but...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

On the Safety and Efficiency of Firewall Policy Deployment

whitepaper While ample research has led to tools for policy specification, correctness analysis, and optimization, few researchers have paid attention to firewall policy deployment: the process where a management tool edits a firewall's configuration to make...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Riverbed RiOS 4.0: Raising the Bar in Wide-Area Data Services (WDS)

whitepaper In this paper by the Taneja Group, learn how Riverbed's Steelhead appliances and it's enhanced RiOS 4.0 operating system can help enterprises overcome these challenges by accelerating encrypted, secure traffic and improving performance of chatty...

Tags: lan - wan standards, wan, capital, optimization

[10 Apr 2008]

Cisco Security Advisory: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software

whitepaper This condition may occur if a device running WAAS software is configured for Edge Services, which utilizes Common Internet File System (CIFS) optimization and receives a flood of TCP SYN packets on port 139 or 445.

Tags: security management

[03 Apr 2008]

Using Cisco Network Planning Solution for Capacity Planning and Optimization

whitepaper It explains how Cisco NPS identifies traffic trends in the current network, forecasts what traffic levels will be in the future, assesses whether the existing network capacity is sufficient to handle the projected load, and automatically redesigns...

Tags: network design

[03 Apr 2008]

An IP/MPLS Over WDM Network Design Problem

whitepaper The paper considers an optimization problem for o -line design of robust NGI core networks carrying elastic traffic, destined for the two-layer IP/MPLS- over-WDM architecture. Design problems related to the Next Generation Internet core networks...

Tags: tcp - ip

[11 Jan 2008]

IP Network Design With End-to-End QoS Constraints: The VPN Case

whitepaper This paper describes a simple methodology to tackle the packet network design problem, and illustrate an example of its application to the optimization of link capacities and routing in a corporate Virtual Private Network (VPN), where traffic is...

Tags: quality of service

[11 Jan 2008]

TCP/IP Interaction Based on Congestion Price: Stability and Optimality

whitepaper Previous work has shown that the system can be modeled as a joint optimization problem that naturally leads to a primal-dual algorithm with shortest-path routing using congestion prices as the link weights.

Tags: switching

[05 Dec 2007]

Trends in TCP/IP Retransmissions and Resets

whitepaper As the Internet grows larger, measuring and characterizing its dynamics becomes essential for purposes ranging from the optimization of future network equipment to modeling the effects of new protocols on the existing traffic mix.

Tags: bandwidth issues, utilization, bandwidth, tcp

[30 Oct 2007]

Cross-Layer Optimization in TCP/IP Networks

whitepaper In this case, TCP/IP incurs no penalty in not splitting traffic across multiple paths. TCP-AQM can be interpreted as distributed primal-dual algorithms to maximize aggregate utility over source rates.

Tags: switching, utility, link, rates

[30 Oct 2007]

Negotiation-Based Routing Between Neighboring ISPs

whitepaper The framework enables pairs of ISPs to agree on routing paths based on their specific relationship, even if they have different optimization criteria. The paper presents a negotiation framework in which adjacent ISPs share information using coarse...

Tags: switching, routing, isps, paths

[24 Oct 2007]

MarineCFO Creates a Shipshape Solution for the Maritime Transport Industry

whitepaper MarineCFO software helps consolidate and integrate multiple business processes - from traffic, maintenance and cargo optimization to hazardous-materials tracking, communications and geographical positioning - to create what Advanced Software CEO...

Tags: business management, balance, dollars, optimize

[14 Sep 2007]

Optimization Issues and Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks With Mobile Sink

whitepaper Many applications have already been envisioned for WSNs, such as: support for traffic engineering, providing information about traffic conditions, motor cars flows, etc; animal life monitoring and environment variables measurement, reporting...

Tags: monitoring systems, traffic, wireless network, monitoring

[07 Sep 2007]

Optimizing Call Completion Rates for a Major European Mobile Operator Improved Customer Satisfaction and Protected Service Revenues

whitepaper After comparing a number of OSS software solutions available, the carrier selected Lucent Technologies market-leading NetMinder Network Traffic Patterning (NTP) call session optimization software. With Lucent NetMinder NTP software, monitoring...

Tags: quality of service, traffic, gsm, lucent technologies

[20 Aug 2007]

Optimization Issues and Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks With Mobile Sink

whitepaper Many applications have already been envisioned for WSNs, such as: support for traffic engineering, providing information about traffic conditions, motor cars flows, etc; animal life monitoring and environment variables measurement, reporting...

Tags: traffic, ad hoc, life, engineering

[17 Aug 2007]

TCP/IP Over Satellite: Optimization Vs. Acceleration

whitepaper End II End's patent-pending Broadband Network Optimization is vastly superior to the various satellite acceleration technologies. End II End's Gateway Security and Optimization Solution, including its powerful BNO technology, is the clear choice...

Tags: broadband, optimization, satellite, throughput

[02 Aug 2007]

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