On the impact of security protocols on the performance of SNMP

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-64

  Schönwälder, Jürgen ^a   Marinov, Vladislav ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b AeroScout ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

network management; security protocol; SNMP

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROTOCOLS; KEY MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INTERFACES; NETWORK OPERATOR; OPERATIONAL COSTS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SECURITY MODEL; SECURITY PROTOCOL; SECURITY PROTOCOLS; SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS; SNMP; TRANSPORT LAYERS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MANAGEMENT; NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 79953819644     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2011.012111.00011     Document Type: Article

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